About
I'm a software developer and entrepreneur with a passion for building businesses on the web. With over 25 years of experience, I've worn many hats: developer, architect, engineering manager, VP of Engineering, and co-founder.
I convert ideas into revenue. I help startups and growing companies make the right technical decisions and build effective engineering teams.
Current Work
Co-founder, Honeybadger Industries
2012 - Present
I co-founded Honeybadger, an application monitoring service trusted by thousands of developers to catch errors and downtime before their users do. I've built and scaled the platform, implemented resilient infrastructure on AWS, and led our SOC 2 compliance efforts.
Owner, Tesly, LLC
2007 - Present
My consulting practice through which I've designed and built web applications for startups, provided e-commerce consulting, and started, operated, and sold SaaS and e-commerce applications.
Notable Open Source Projects
Faker
A Ruby library for generating fake data such as names, addresses, and phone numbers. With over 11,000 GitHub stars, Faker is one of the most popular Ruby gems and is widely used for seeding databases, building demos, and testing applications.
Previous Experience
VP Engineering, officespace.com
2011 - 2013
Led the migration from ColdFusion to Ruby on Rails, built infrastructure with Chef, and developed an iOS application consuming the OfficeSpace.com API.
Engineering Manager & Technical Architect
Various roles, 2000 - 2011
Held engineering leadership roles at multiple companies in Seattle and Kirkland, WA, managing teams, making technology decisions, and building web applications.
Technical Expertise
Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, AWS, DevOps, distributed systems, and 25+ years of web development experience.
Education
Louisiana State University, B.S. Information Systems and Decision Sciences, 2000