Conference speaker and owner of Statesert. Led Statesert's migration from a MERN stack (MongoDB, Express, React, Node.js) to Ruby on Rails roughly six years ago, including a four-years-ago MongoDB→PostgreSQL migration and later a React→Phlex/Ruby UI front-end migration. Contributor to Ruby UI, a Phlex-based shadcn/ui-style component library. Gave his first-ever conference talk — 'Building Beautiful UIs with Ruby: a Rails-Native Approach' — at wroclove.rb 2025.