American developer living in Berlin, Germany since ~2019. Head of engineering at test.io (a crowd-driven QA testing company). Open-source Ruby/Rails developer who maintains several gems around running SQLite in production on Rails, including the enhanced-sqlite3-adapter and a Litestream Ruby wrapper. Blogs at fractaledmind.github.io and is @fractaledmind everywhere on the internet. Married in early 2024 (Denmark for license, Jamaica for ceremony); lives with two dogs Ruby and Tuck; married to a Russian. Frequent wroclove.rb speaker (2024's SQLite-in-production talk, 2025's 'On the tasteful journey to Yippee'). Newest project Plume is a Ruby parser for SQLite SQL. Co-created the paid 'High Leverage Rails' course with Aaron Francis in early 2025. For roughly three years has been designing and prototyping the Yippee framework together with Joel Drapper, converging on a shared 'taste' through many offline conversations and a Rooftop Ruby podcast recording.