My work has mostly been in regulated, high-stakes environments, where one wrong record is a real problem for a real person. That shapes what I build: pipelines that move privacy-sensitive data, validation that catches a bad record before anything downstream trusts it, and interactive visualizations that make the result legible.
Not all of it has been infrastructure. I've built internal tools other engineers adopted, co-founded a startup, and shipped consumer products — and I'm comfortable owning a system from the architecture call through the release. I'd rather ship something correct and boring than clever and fragile.
Correct and boring beats clever and fragile.