I build reliable systems —
and the teams behind them.

Keeping critical systems reliable, and growing the engineers who run them. Today that's Neon, the serverless Postgres platform Databricks acquired in 2025. Before that, I spent several years in Google SRE on the world's largest rollout system and on building Ops Manager (MongoDB's private cloud platform), and improving the Atlas Admin API experience. Earlier, at Salesforce, I built monitoring tools for the core app and spent a lot of time debugging Apex, Visualforce, and SOQL to untangle the gnarliest problems in customers' orgs.

When I'm not doing that, I'm building open-source tools or writing on my blog about system design, reliability, and how engineering teams actually work.