March 2026
The last post on this site is from 2020. A few things have changed since then.
I stopped writing because life got loud. My children were born, and the years that followed were hard—the kind of hard that reorganises your priorities without asking. You learn quickly that responsibility doesn’t wait for ideal circumstances.
That period changed me more than I expected. Not just as an engineer, but as a person. Parenting demands a different kind of attention. You slow down. You develop patience you didn’t know you needed. You find out what you’re actually made of, day after day. And despite all of it, there’s nothing more rewarding than raising little humans.
At some point I started training for triathlon. Completing my first 70.3 told me something I needed to hear: I could still do hard things, on top of an already demanding life.
It was a contained project—if you fail, it’s on you, no consequences beyond yourself. Which is rarer compared to navigating work and parenting at the same time.
The professional shift was slower, but more lasting. I had to make deliberate trade-offs. Prioritising my personal life meant slowing down professionally.
At the same time, maintaining an open-source project in those early years became a different kind of school: communication, leading without authority, making decisions in public, and building trust across organisations.
The technical skills were already there. The rest needed work. That’s what changed most.
So why come back now?
I’m no longer interested in staying in the same place professionally while everything else has moved forward. At some point you realise that if you don’t define yourself, someone else will.
This reflects who I am now.
If you’ve been here before, welcome back. If you’re new, you’re arriving at an interesting time.