What I'm doing now

Last updated June 2026.

At work

Building and maintaining a micro-frontend platform at Verisk. Current focus areas:

• Angular and Module Federation — migrating from a custom shell to Webpack Module Federation for better isolation and independent deployments.
• AWS and Terraform — defining infrastructure as code for our staging and production environments. Learning the hard way that state management in Terraform is its own discipline.
• GitHub Actions — consolidating a sprawl of CI workflows into reusable composite actions shared across forty-plus repositories.

Side projects

• This blog — built with Astro, deployed on Cloudflare Pages. Writing helps me think through problems and document solutions I'll forget otherwise.
• Home lab — a K3s cluster on retired laptops and a Raspberry Pi. Currently self-hosting Miniflux, Vaultwarden, Gitea, and Nextcloud.

Learning

• Deepening my understanding of distributed systems through Martin Kleppmann's *Designing Data-Intensive Applications* (second read, still finding new insights).
• Exploring AI-assisted development workflows — integrating Claude into CI pipelines, generating test scaffolds, and experimenting with agentic coding patterns.
• Picking up Rust on weekends for the systems-level perspective it gives on memory and performance.

Reading

• *Designing Data-Intensive Applications* by Martin Kleppmann
• *A Philosophy of Software Design* by John Ousterhout
• *The Staff Engineer's Path* by Tanya Reilly