I’m a data engineer who has worked professionally with Python, SQL, and Linux for close to a decade. I’m also a writer, and in an earlier phase of my career was a journalist covering law and economic policy. These days, I mostly write technical documentation or here on my blog.
Originally from the Pacific Northwest, I have lived in various U.S. cities and in South Korea. I have been studying the Korean language since the early 2000s. I'm still fairly fluent — watching the dramas helps — but rustier now that I no longer live in Seoul.
When I’m not hammering away at my Leopold, I can often be found bicycling up and down the many hills around the San Francisco Bay Area where I live now. My main ride is a Fuji Touring.
I really like technical books about programming. My floor has stacks of volumes published by No Starch Press, O’Reilly, and Addison-Wesley, to name a few. I also like reading historical non-fiction.
I’ll never publish anything here that was written by “AI” or otherwise generated by an LLM. I’m writing here to express my thoughts, in my voice. I bear responsibility for all mistakes, typos, and other silliness.