I'm currently running product management at Benchling. Before Benchling, I led product at many well known developer brands like Heroku and GitHub. In these roles, I honed my skills around what it takes to build great developer experiences. Prior to these roles, I've spent time as an engineer at early stage startups, programming SAS and COBOL on mainframes, and even taking a small detour to get an MBA.

I'm a midwesterner by heart but the SF Bay Area is home. I'm always up for a mountain bike ride up Mt Tam or around Tamarancho almost any day of the week. If you're ever so inclined, I'm always up for a group ride!

I still like writing code, and this blog is my way of staying close to it—playing with ideas, building small tools, and keeping my hands in the technical side of things. My current tools in my toolbox include:

• Zed: It's my main editor. It’s fast, feels alive, and has the least friction of anything I’ve used.
• Vim: This is still home. I've still got all of the muscle memory and it works everywhere.
• Astro: I've switched from Hugo to Astro. One isn't necessariliy better with the other. For me, Astro fit my mental model of how static site generation should work.
• DuckDB: It fits how I think: small, fast, local. DuckDB gives me a full SQL engine without having to spin up Snowflake or Postgres just to answer a question for all of my blog analytics, side projects, and random data explorations.
• Feedbin: To keep up with papers, blogs, and the general firehose. It’s simple, fast, and gives me a single place to track everything—from ML papers to developer tools to whatever catches my attention on Hacker News. A lot of what ends up here starts as a highlight or note in Feedbin.

You can find me over on Twitter or via email at neovintage@gmail.com.