05//now

A snapshot of
right now.

updated April 22, 2026
from Arlington, VA

A short snapshot of what I'm focused on right now. Not every project. Just the stuff that would actually come up in conversation. This page decays faster than anything else on the site, so check the date at the top.

01

At Mastercard

Rolling out AI tooling foundations across a 900-engineer org. Reusable skills, MCP servers, agent patterns. In parallel, moving the design system's next cohort through migration. 7 apps done, 28 in flight, more after that.

02

Self-hosted

Just shipped the kian.coffee rebuild. This page is the proof. Next up on Hausparty is the reconciliation and reports phases of the content pipeline. The Pelican and Wings game-server stack on VLAN 80 is finally stable enough that friends can run their own servers without a support call.

03

Learning

Going deeper on agentic systems. Specifically, how to make local LLMs useful for ops work without giving them the keys. On paper, whichever fantasy series is next in the queue. 16 finished in 2025. 2026 is off to a slow start.

04

Off-keyboard

Coffee in the morning. Cat in the afternoon. Fantasy novel at night. Occasional round with the smoke alarm when I get ambitious in the kitchen.