Engineering Manager · AI Tooling · Cybersecurity
Engineering leadership,
in production.
14 years of shipping distributed systems at Amazon and Oracle. Now writing about what AI tooling does to that job — and breaking into things on the weekends to stay sharp.
Oracle EM 2023 → now
ex-Amazon 11y · AWS
MIT Cybersecurity
TryHackMe 0xRCI · active
// Case studies
Selected work, written up.
Amazon / AWS 2012 – 2023
Holding the line: 11 years on a tier-1 AWS service
What I learned operating a high-throughput AWS service from 2012 to 2023 — the parts that don't show up in postmortems.
11
Years on call
20+
Regions supported
1
Tier
Oracle Dec 2023 – Present
Going from IC to EM without losing the plot
Six things I wish I'd been told when I made the transition from senior IC to engineering manager.
varies
Direct reports
many
1:1s / week
fewer
PRs reviewed
// Latest writing
Recent posts.
AI-assisted code review is changing what 'reviewer' means
Three months of running an AI-assisted review workflow on a real team. What's better, what's worse, and what I'm watching.
ai-tooling
Why I do TryHackMe on weekends as an engineering manager
It's not for a career change. It's because management makes you stupid in specific ways, and offensive security is a cheap way to stay sharp.
cybersecurity
Hello, again
Why this site exists, what's going on it, and the bar I'm holding myself to.
meta