I’m a Principal Engineer at IBM / HashiCorp where I work on Terraform, an IaC industry-defining tool for managing any kind of service by codifying APIs into declarative configuration files. I call the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota my home.

I’m a big advocate of distributed teams and open source, having spent the majority of my career as a 100% remote employee and at other top tier open source companies such as Red Hat. As a public speaker I’ve had the privilege of speaking at major conferences as close as the American Midwest and as far as Kyoto, Japan on topics in my areas of expertise: Golang, Ruby, and Cloud Infrastructure, among others.

Outside of programming I love ice hockey. I devote a lot of my time organizing amateur hockey groups such as the Dangling Pointers™ - Minnesota’s premier shitty beer league hockey team - and as a USA Hockey certified coach for the White Bear Lake Area Hockey Association for my kids. Still, I make sure to reserve enough time to fulfill my responsibility as a native Minnesotan to making pointless connections to Minnesota at every opportunity.

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