Software architect at Harvard Management Company. I design systems that make institutional-scale portfolio management transparent and navigable — bridging human judgment with structured data where the stakes are real.
I've been writing code for thirty years. BASIC in fourth grade, C by sixth, inline x86 assembly by sixteen — plotting pixels to 0xA000 on an 80386 using shift-add multiplication picked up from a book I found at the Salvation Army. The reference books are still in the garage.
Since then: Acadia University (CS), cross-platform systems across GNU/Linux, Win32, HP-UX, and Solaris, sixteen years of C#/.NET, and a long arc through Python, JavaScript, and whatever the problem demands. I care about the layer underneath — the primitives, the state model, the thing hiding below the abstraction everyone's excited about.
I also paint, sculpt, ski, drum, and grow rare medicinal plants. My grandmother taught me to work with my hands across every medium. Each one reinforces the same principle: precision and creativity aren't opposites — they sharpen each other.
ecs-js — A tiny, deterministic Entity–Component–System core in pure JavaScript. Zero dependencies. No build step. Fourteen source files.
- Caller-driven ticking — the library has no opinion about time
- Phase-agnostic system scheduling with topological ordering (
before/afterdeclarations) - Seeded PRNG (mulberry32) + deferred structural mutations = full determinism
- Snapshot/restore for time travel, replays, and branching
- Archetypes, hierarchy management, cross-world entity references
- Query builder with
where,project,orderBy,offset,limit - Entity-local scripting via handler tables with event routing and error capture
- Storage flexibility:
mapfor clarity,soafor throughput
Built for simulations, agent-driven systems, and complex interactive state — not just games, though it handles those too.
JSHack — A spiritual successor to NetHack, built on ecs-js. Roguelike mechanics as an architectural stress test.
DotNetHack — The earlier attempt — a .NET roguelike from 2012 that started the thread.
Deity-JS — A headless mood engine for games, simulations, and operating systems.
Pixel_Buzz_Box — A real-time arcade survival game for the Raspberry Pi Pico featuring a bee collecting pollen in an infinite procedurally-generated world.
I publish on Substack — essays on system architecture, AI substrate problems, institutional dynamics, and the practice of looking underneath.
