I build systems that make other systems talk to each other. Enterprise integration patterns, event-driven architectures, and the automation of everything tedious.
Currently exploring how AI agents fit into these patterns. Turns out the messaging primitives we’ve been using for decades (request-reply, correlation IDs, saga orchestration) map surprisingly well to agent coordination.
This is how I work.
Background
20+ years shipping software. Started hacking BASIC on a Tandy Color Computer 3 connected to a black and white TV in 1989. The obsession has always been the same: making computers do more work so humans do less.
I’ve built data pipelines that process millions of events, integration layers connecting dozens of external systems, and automation that eliminated entire categories of manual work. Now I write about the patterns that make these systems reliable.
When I’m not writing code or architecture docs, I’m probably reading about Late Antiquity history (would’ve been a history professor in another life) or building Gundam models.
What I Write About
- Enterprise Integration Patterns: The EIP book patterns applied to modern systems
- Event-Driven Architecture: Kafka, RabbitMQ, message design
- System Automation: Making toil disappear
- AI & Agents: How messaging patterns apply to agent orchestration
- Engineering Leadership: Building teams that ship
Fun Facts
- Favorite language? Elixir (and lately, Gleam)
- Favorite Final Fantasy? VI
- Favorite whiskey? Starlight Cigar Batch Bourbon
- Favorite fiction? American Gods by Neil Gaiman
- Favorite non-fiction? I Am a Strange Loop by Douglas Hofstadter
- Favorite movie? Dark City or Brazil, can’t pick
- Favorite workout? Deadlift, despite what it does to me post-40
Quotes That Stick
“Consistency before intensity. Start small and become the kind of person who shows up every day.” - James Clear
“Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.” - Marcus Aurelius
“I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center.” - Kurt Vonnegut
“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” - Carl Jung