Writing
Notes from the work: what I built, what the evidence supports, and what still needs a person to decide.
Staying close without becoming the bottleneck
I moved from principal engineer to managing managers without wanting to leave the architecture behind. The harder lesson was how to stay accountable without making myself the route every important decision had to travel.
The score was the easy part
I built GTFS Scorecard to turn transit-data findings into repairs. It taught me that civic technology earns trust through explicit judgment, honest unknowns, preserved evidence, and proof that a change reached the source.
A new job title does not erase what you built
A career pivot cannot launder surveillance and military-AI work into moral authority or create a claim on anyone’s trust.
There was no maintenance window for becoming myself
I transitioned while my life and the public systems around me kept running. That experience shaped how I modernize technology and lead people through change without abandoning them.
A signed transit order starts the story
A practical way to read California transit policy through exact instructions, named agencies, inferred dependencies, and public evidence.
Accessibility is an engineering practice, not an audit
Accessibility fails when it is saved for the end. I make the machine-checkable parts fail the build and keep the manual work visible.