Writing
Notes on the things I work on: privacy engineering, infrastructure, audio production, and the tools that come out of all of it. Occasional, considered.
May 2026·Operations·In draft
Notes on running production infrastructure on bare metal: high-availability failover design, private mesh networking, CVE response, monitoring. The operational depth that turns sovereign hosting from a marketing claim into a working system.
May 2026·Privacy·In draft
Building a deterministic-but-uncorrelatable subject identifier system for OIDC at ConsentKeys, using HKDF with per-app salts. Notes on a problem the spec leaves to implementers.
March 2026·Infrastructure·In draft
On the engineering and jurisdictional trade-offs of building data-residency-first cloud infrastructure for privacy-focused businesses. Why Petrichor lives in Canada.
December 2025·Audio·In draft
Six months of reverse-engineering how to fake a drummer in Ableton. Velocity sampling, grid drift, and other small lies that survive close listening.
More in the pipeline