I love music, open technology and building things that bring people together.
I was born in 1980. The two things I loved more than anything growing up were my dad’s restored 1946 Wurlitzer jukebox, and our Commodore 64.
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I listen to music every day, sometimes all day. What I enjoy most, though, is when I can sit down and truly focus on it. Over the past 10 years I’ve gotten back into collecting physical media, mostly vinyl, cassette tapes and CDs. Frequent your local thrift stores – they’ll almost always surprise you!
I love playing my bass guitar, practicing and coming up with new stuff and using my loop pedal to layer things together. I’ve played in a number of bands, mostly rock (punk/alt/metal), have gigged and recorded and love the creative act. I also love playing drums, guitar, anything.
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My professional career has always been in tech. I cut my teeth on the Commodore 64, was a SysOp in the BBS days and consider myself an old-school hacker. I’ve worked in support, engineering, administration and cybersecurity roles. I’ve worked at PC repair shops, ISPs, MSPs, the financial, energy and satellite data industries, as well as local municipalities. I ran a successful freelance I.T. consultancy for 20 years before moving from California to Washington state in 2022, administrating and supporting hundreds of small business networks and residential clients.
I’ve been a huge Linux and open-source advocate since the late 90’s when I first got to install Redhat 5.1 on my PC. 100% of the Subjam backend platform, which I designed, engineered and maintain on bare metal and in a world-class data center, runs on 100% GNU/Linux. I’ve had a short stint as a technical writer with a focus in Linux. You can see my articles here.
My motivation for the past 4 years has been to build Subjam as much as possible, with the resource I have available.
Right now I have a window of opportunity to focus full-time on bringing Subjam to life, but the clock is ticking and I’m seeking funding opportunities so I can continue on this trajectory and complete this phase of development. Working on Subjam is where I’m happiest – I wake up every morning excited to do more to bring my vision to the masses.