This is me.

I live in Edmonton, Alberta with my loving wife and our ever-inquisitive daughter, plus a dog named Roxy and a cat named Peridot. I love to ski, but I can certainly enjoy a good bike ride too.

I like Star Trek more than Star Wars, but I’ve got room in my heart for both (and really any sci-fi; The Expanse is amazing). My first computer was an IBM PC AT clone whose amber glow and buckling-spring keys were mesmerizing to a two-year-old in 1988. My first console was a Mattel Intellivision, and my second was a Sony PlayStation 2.

I prefer my coffee blonde and my beer hoppy. I edit videos just for fun, I’m not the worst cook, and I’ve been writing software since elementary school. Daniel Ricciardo will always be my favourite F1 driver, I think anything vaguely involving spaceflight is neat, and I don’t get to play as many video games as I used to.

If you’d heard of me before visiting this site, it was probably through spaceflight fan communities, and particularly the one around a game called Kerbal Space Program.

A fan video I made in my spare time, Build Fly Dream, went viral and contributed enough to KSP’s early success that I was thanked in the official announcement trailer for Kerbal Space Program 2, itself an homage to my original video. I also independently developed the first working multiplayer mod for KSP, Kerbal Multi Player, delivering an experience that until then was sometimes said to be technically impossible. KMP grew with the support of the wider KSP community, and its successors carried multiplayer forward for years.

I never stop making things, whether it’s a programming challenge just for fun, a video edit about space or skiing, or even a carved pumpkin. Building things for fun is how I keep learning, and it shows up in everything I do at work.