I live in Brooklyn, New York. I’m originally from Melbourne, Australia
via Sydney and a few other places.
I am an SVP of Engineering at Sotheby’s and previously VP of Engineering at
Timber, Glitch, CTO in residence at Microsoft, founder and CTO at Empatico, CTO at Kickstarter, VP of Services at Docker, VP of Engineering at
Venmo, and VP Tech Operations for Puppet Labs. I have also published eleven
technical books.
My interests include cooking, wine, political theory, photojournalism,
philosophy, poetry. I enjoy good conversation, laughter, reading, music, and my
cats. Things that piss me off are jingoism, bad grammar, violence and
cucumber.