Hello there 👋

I'm Mike. I like building infrastructure and infrastructure teams. In my current gig, I get to build infrastructure for data.

I work at NCSA as a director of Data Engineering.

• 🔭 I build stuff with Terraform and mostly live in AWS.
• 🧠 As required, learning lots about AI, I like building out local RAG projects.
• 🔧 Building out AI agents to run stuff I don't want to have to remember.
• 🎸 As a failed musician, I try to find time to write music.
• ✔ I live my life by endless checklists and markdown.
• 📝 | Blog

2026 Goals

Take some time to focus on creative work and finish some of my numerous uncompleted music projects.

Tools

• 🏗️ | Terraform

• _ | Bash

• 🐙 | GitHub
• ⛁ | Airflow
• 🐍 | Python