I'm a Software Engineer and Security Architect with a passion for building systems that are both resilient and elegant.
🎯 Disciplined Craft
I treat engineering as disciplined craft—first principles, careful trade-offs, and evidence that dictates actions.
🚀 First Principles Learning
Much of my learning is self-directed—rooted in curiosity, first-principles reasoning, and a bias for action. My range runs from C/C++ and system internals to distributed cloud platforms.
🔒 Security by Design
Security isn't a bolt-on; it's a property that emerges from sound design. I favor bounded contexts, explicit trust boundaries, and runtime policy enforcement.
What I Work On
Platform & Cloud Security
Trust boundaries, identity & network segmentation, encryption by default, policy-as-code, telemetry that tells the truth.
Secure-by-Design SDLC
Threat models tied to requirements, IaC baselines, gates for secrets/SAST/SCA/IaC, golden images, patch pipelines, boring rollbacks.
Runtime Observability
Least privilege, provenance, actionable signals; incident response that favors containment over heroics.
Data Protection & Privacy
Minimized collection, scoped access, auditable flows, deletion that actually deletes.
Beyond Work
Intellectual Pursuits
I'm a bibliophile drawn to Ancient History, Classic Literature, Mathematics, Psychology, and Systems Thinking. From Thucydides to Dostoevsky, from CLRS to SICP, from GEB to modern systems theory—reminders that patterns repeat and feedback loops decide what endures.
Physical Discipline
Regular movement keeps me disciplined: football, gym training, long walks and rides. Pacing and recovery matter in bodies and in systems; both reward consistency over theatrics.
🤖 Toward Agentic Systems
We're building Emergent Actors, not oracles. With agency comes responsibility: When we grant a system agency, we also inherit the duty to make its intent clear, set boundaries on its course of action and preserve causal feedback loops so actions remain grounded in reality.
Alignment, in practice, is about setting clear objectives and fostering corrigible behavior — systems that update on new evidence, accept oversight without resistance, and disengage safely when confronted with unforeseen circumstances.
Craft over Hype
Deep work, careful reasoning, and time-tested principles over flashy trends and shortcuts
Fundamentals over Shortcuts
Master the basics, understand the why, build on solid foundations that endure
Steady in Cause; Antifragile in Effect
Consistent in purpose, resilient in execution, stronger through controlled stress