About

I'm the kind of person who takes things apart to see how they work. The impulse shows up everywhere — whether it's a broken workflow at work, a homelab that needs rearchitecting at home, or a bottle of perfume on the counter.

The perfumery is the part that doesn't fit anywhere. Molecular composition, volatile compounds, the psychology of scent. It's precision work that doesn't have a dashboard or a KPI. You can't measure whether a perfume works until someone wears it. Still a hobby. Still the fun part.

The homelab is where the professional and personal blur together. Forty-nine containers on bare metal, no cloud provider, full observability. It's not a side project — it's a practice in ownership. When something breaks, you fix it. When it works, you know why.

There's a thread through all of it — understand the system, simplify where you can, build things that last. It's not a philosophy so much as a habit. The kind that shows up whether you're looking at a spreadsheet with 1.5M rows or a bottle of perfume that smells almost right.