I architech and implement high-availibility, monitored production systems that perform at your most demanded moments. Experienced in fast-paced start-up environments shipping dependable infrastructure in an array of industry compliant systems from SOC-2 to HIPAA and everything in between. Leveraging expert knowledge in the ever-evolving development world to ship quality products fast and reliably. Privacy-first by default with pragmatic solutions for all your needs.
What I bring
I'm well versed in designing resilient products across a range of industries in environments where compliance, readiness, and 99.9999% uptime aren't a nice-to-have feature, but a expectation that drives your product from the start.
AI-generated apps allows you to share your vision with the world in the snap of a prompt, but come at a technical cost. I audit your code, find the cracks, and fix what the model got wrong preventing performance issues and security breaches before they happen.
Monitoring and analytics provide insights of your products in realtime that you can act on. I optimize for observability, database query performance, and systems that notifies you and has a fix in place before users have a chance to report an issue.
First-party tooling for analytics, monitoring, and error tracking to keep your users' data out of third-party silos. You don't have to sacrifice convenience over privacy. Own your own data.
Recent Writing
With the billionaire/one-percenter class becoming more brazenly corrupt on a daily basis, we all need to find a way to rely less on the handful of individ...
De-monopolizing my digital life has been something I've been chipping away at for a while now, and the lowest hanging fruit turned out to be email. Lettin...
This is going to be a short post — mostly me holding myself accountable and trying to kick-start the habit of writing again in 2026. The clock keeps tick...
With a new Ruby on Rails version comes new gadgets, tools, and learnings. I've been building out a new Rails 8 app — moving fast, trying to ship ideas qui...
Howdy World 👋 Welcome to my blog. I'm Kurt — a software engineer with a longtime itch to build products of my own. I'm using this as a public forum to doc...