About

I'm a senior enterprise architect at a mid-size trucking company in the Chicagoland area. Working at this scale means I'm a player-coach — close enough to the code to know what works and what doesn't, and senior enough to influence what gets built. It's a useful vantage point right now. AI is genuinely changing how software gets made, and that's worth paying attention to. But the thing that matters hasn't changed: software that just works.

I came up through enterprise transportation systems — AS/400, RPG, the kind of unfashionable infrastructure that quietly moves the physical economy. These days I work primarily in Node.js and PostgreSQL on AWS, building things like load planning systems, CDC pipelines, and whatever else the business needs that vendors don't sell.

I write here about software in trucking and logistics, the realities of mid-market IT, and how AI-assisted development is changing what a small team can build. My bias is toward stability, simplicity, and software that earns its complexity. I am professionally suspicious of unnecessary abstractions.

If you run IT or operations at a trucking, logistics, or distribution company and something here resonates, I'd be glad to hear from you. You can reach me at email me.