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I'm a software engineer at Paychex in Rochester, NY, working on AI/ML tooling and MCP server infrastructure. My day-to-day is Python for the AI/ML side and Java and Spring Boot on the backend — Oracle, Kafka, MongoDB, Dapr, OpenShift. I build the pipes that other systems talk through.

I came into software from a different career path — I spent years in nursing and dialysis before making the switch. That background shapes how I think about systems: reliability matters, failure modes matter, and the person depending on the output matters. I also mentor students in robotics.

Outside work: Magic: The Gathering, and board games that overstay their welcome in the best way — Twilight Imperium, Brass: Birmingham, Arkham Horror. This blog is where I write about what I'm building and figuring out. No content calendar. Just things worth putting down.