Record
Twenty years on the web.
Software, public benefit work, and a long-running interest in what technology does to the people who depend on it.
WordPress
Core contributor, plugin developer, speaker, and lifelong builder on the open web.
BruteProtect
Built a WordPress security product, then joined Automattic after its acquisition. The work became part of Jetpack and was made free.
Jetpack and Akismet
Led the Jetpack development team and worked on software used across millions of WordPress sites.
Reconnect
Co-founded and led public-benefit civic technology for pretrial, reentry, and recovery work across 31+ states.
AI systems and Russell
Building tools for more legible agent work, humane computing, and Russell, my next startup.
The through-line is responsibility.
Build useful things. Keep learning from where they land. Make room for people to decide what matters.