Interests

A partial, ever-growing list of rabbit holes.

• Software Engineering & Cloud Architecture — cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, automation, platform engineering, and making complicated systems reliable, secure, and maintainable.
• Aerospace & Spacecraft Engineering — propulsion, reusable launch systems, and robotics, pursued through Patriot Aerospace Corporation and a long-term ambition to design, build, and fly a spacecraft to the Moon and back.
• Artificial Intelligence & Human-Computer Interaction — using LLMs as tools for research, writing, and challenging assumptions, while studying the field formally through Georgia Tech's OMSCS program.
• Electronics & Avionics — rooted in eight years maintaining F-15 avionics and electronic warfare systems in the United States Air Force.
• Entrepreneurship & Business Strategy — building custom software, hardware, and physical businesses, and exploring the managerial side of things through an MBA at Eastern University.
• Retro Computing — TRS-80s, DOS, assembly language, and anything with a DEBUG.COM prompt.
• Automotive Mechanics & Amateur Rocketry — building, repairing, and occasionally launching things with my son.
• Philosophy, Debate & Organizational Behavior — questioning why systems, institutions, and incentives so often produce unintended consequences.
• Lifelong Learning — wandering between computer science, business, pharmacy, mathematics, law, and whatever else looks interesting this week.
• Irish Heritage & Celtic Culture — history, storytelling, resilience, and a perfectly reasonable excuse to decorate things with shamrocks and Celtic knotwork.
• The Outdoors — woods, creeks, fishing, and anything that doesn't involve a screen.