I build systems that perform under real conditions — HIPAA-compliant healthcare infrastructure, high-throughput crypto platforms, and startup environments where shipping fast and staying reliable aren't opposites. Privacy-first by default, pragmatic about the stack.
What I bring
Shipped in crypto, payroll, and healthcare — environments where HIPAA compliance, SOC-2 readiness, and 99.9% uptime aren't optional. That pressure shapes everything I build.
Monitoring isn't a feature you add later — it's the first question. I optimize for observability, database query performance, and systems that tell you what's wrong before your users do.
I favor self-hosted tooling for analytics, monitoring, and error tracking — keeping your users' data out of third-party silos. You own your data; I help you keep it that way.
AI-generated apps move fast — but if no one on your team understands the output, problems compound silently. I read the code, find the cracks, and fix what the model got wrong.
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...
In an attempt to de-monopolize my life, the low hanging fruit is to not allow Google (or monopolies in general) to have access to one of the most intimate...
This is going to be a short post in hopes to motivate myself to start blogging again in 2026.The clock keeps ticking and we have blasted into a new year! ...
Today I Learned (TIL) About Kamal GotchasWith a new Ruby on Rails version comes new gadgets, tools, and learnings. One of the newer tools that was include...
Howdy World 👋 Welcome to my blog. I'm Kurt. I'm a software engineer going through a mid-life crisis with a longtime desire to start my own business. I am ...