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A snapshot of what I'm up to right now — current role, focus, what I'm learning, and what's on the nightstand. Inspired by /now pages. Updated whenever the answer changes.

> role
Software Engineer @ DataCollect Traffic Systems
Feb 2026 → now
> side
Principal Engineer @ PatentAssist.ai
Jun 2023 → now · self-employed
> focus
traffic data pipelines · React · Django · Azure
> learning
rust (for real this time)
> reading
Morse's Greatest Mystery and Other Stories — Colin Dexter
> building
this portfolio, occasionally
> location
Dresden, DE
last edited: 2026-04-19

Juggling two roles right now — DataCollect during the week and PatentAssist on evenings and weekends. It's a lot, but both are the kind of problems I want my hands on, and the generalist-engineering texture keeps them interesting.

The Rust "learning" line has lived on this page longer than I'd like to admit. This is the year.

Finished Project Hail Mary — wrote up the book and movie over here. Ditched the Naval Almanack. Starting Colin Dexter's Morse's Greatest Mystery and Other Stories — a short-story collection from the Inspector Morse canon.