I go by skippednote across the internet.

I'm a Director of Engineering at Axelerant, where I work across engineering leadership, product development, and technical direction. I started hands-on and never fully put it down. These days that means a mix of leading teams, shaping systems, reviewing architecture, and still building small tools when something annoys me enough.

I spent most of my career solving problems on the frontend, then moved deeper into backend systems, infrastructure, cloud platforms, and distributed systems. I like understanding the tools I depend on rather than just using them, so I keep a home server and a handful of small services running for no particularly defensible reason.

Before Axelerant, I worked at Clipboard Health, Acquia, and Pixoto.

• Leading engineering at Axelerant, across the stack and end to end.
• Mentoring engineers into lead and manager roles.
• Writing about engineering work, agent-assisted development, delivery, infrastructure, and the decisions behind them.
• Reading more than I publish.
• Tinkering with self-hosted services, small tools, and systems that probably could have stayed simpler.

I write at skippednote.dev.

The writing is mostly field notes from real work: engineering decisions, production tradeoffs, AI-assisted development, team operating models, infrastructure, delivery, and the occasional personal note.

A few sections worth starting with:

• Writing
• Agent Notes
• Forward Deployed Engineering
• Talks
• Reading

• Site: skippednote.dev
• Email: [email protected]
• LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/skippednote
• X: x.com/skippednote
• Goodreads: goodreads.com/skippednote
• GitHub: github.com/skippednote