Software engineer based in Happy Valley, Oregon. Former practicing attorney. Tech Lead at Availity, where I build healthcare applications that serve 100k users a day on HIPAA-compliant AWS infrastructure.

I contribute to JavaScript ecosystem health, mostly dependency modernization and performance work.

• Merged performance fix to Vite (skipping redundant circular import checks in SSR module evaluation)
• Merged correctness fix to Stylelint (no-duplicate-selectors false negatives for escaped selectors)
• Merged dependency modernization PRs to ora, string-length, plop, http-proxy-middleware, jsfxr, and the e18e module-replacements and cli repos, replacing legacy dependencies with native Node.js APIs
• Maintainer of Availity's public packages (availity-react, availity-workflow, sdk-js), including the ESM / ESLint 9 / Jest 30 / Node 20 toolchain modernization

• whodunit: turns public domain detective novels into playable mysteries. You interview the characters; Claude improvises their dialogue and decides which clues each question earns. Third place at a Claude Code hackathon, built in two hours.
• x12-270-parser: deterministic parser for X12 270/271 healthcare eligibility transactions, built at an Anthropic hackathon with Claude Code and Bun.
• formalize-spec / formalize-enforce: Claude Code plugins that convert prose agent instructions into formal specifications and mechanically enforce them via hooks.
• extra-steps.dev: AI buzzword reference guide. Most of these AI/LLM buzzwords are just something else with extra steps.

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