I'm a Staff Solutions Architect at LaunchDarkly, where I help engineering teams ship software with more control and less risk — using feature flags, progressive delivery, and the practices that make both actually stick.
My path here ran through incident response, Linux systems administration, and nearly a decade of consulting at Red Hat. The common theme in all of that work that I've seen repeated over and over is: the hardest part of adopting new technology is rarely the technology. It's the cultural change that has to come with it — the habits, incentives, and organizational trust that either make a new practice land or quietly kill it. I've spent most of my career navigating that gap.
Today I focus on release engineering, platform engineering, and helping teams move from "deploy and pray" to confident, observable rollouts. The Release Patterns section of this site is a living reference of the strategies I return to most.