Exercise science, theology, software.

I started in exercise science at Truman State — how the body works as a system, how small changes cascade, why measurement without context tells you nothing. Then three years of theology at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. Close reading, structured argumentation, and an obsession with getting the model right before you write a word.

Software turned out to be where both of those instincts landed. I think about systems the way I was trained to — tracing cause and effect, questioning the assumptions buried in the architecture, testing whether the model actually matches reality.

I've spent seven years shipping across startups and product teams: C2FO, Prenda, TripleBlind, Prismatic, and now RealWork Labs where I work across the full stack. Outside of work, I build iOS apps — Offshelf and Almost Dawn — because the best way to understand product is to own every decision from concept to the App Store.

I care about building software that actually helps people. The best engineering I've done has come from genuine curiosity about the problem, not the technology.