I'm a software engineer interested in programming languages, compilers, code generation, and cross-language communication. I especially enjoy working on the layers between APIs, languages, runtimes, and the developers who use them.
I'm a Software Engineer II at AWS on the Technical Content Experience team (@awsdocs), working on content automations: helping automate how AWS technical documentation is created and maintained, for developers and agents alike.
I was an open-source maintainer at AWS (@aws, @awslabs), where I worked on Smithy, an open-source API modeling language and code-generation toolchain, and on the AWS SDKs for JavaScript v3, Go v2, and Swift.
Before that, I built distributed, event-driven systems for Amazon's third-party orders services, including an EU GDPR data-deletion platform.
I like building tools and systems that make software development easier:
- Programming Languages & Code Generation: API modeling, serialization, compilers, code generators, and generated clients
- SDKs & Cross-Language Systems: tools that connect APIs, languages, and runtimes
- Developer Infrastructure: build systems, testing, CI/CD, and developer tooling
- Documentation Tooling: generating and maintaining technical content at scale
- Distributed Systems: event-driven architectures, scalability, fault tolerance, and observability
I sometimes write about software engineering on Code Prosody.