I build at the seam between the analytical mind and the symbolic one.
Twenty-five years in the guts of enterprise systems: distributed architectures where a bad design decision doesn't just fail, it fails at 2 AM on a Friday. Lately that's AI: building with it, governing it, and writing about what it's quietly doing to the people using it. I'm also an archetypal tarotist, astrologer, and chaos witch. Most people keep those worlds in separate rooms. I think that's a load of horseshit.
CVS Health: Executive Director, Delivery & Reliability Engineering for Enterprise Data & AI Platforms. I ship most of my work by directing parallel AI agents inside a regulated Fortune-10 enterprise, with human gates and independent verification on everything they produce. 1,301 agent plans, every one verified. Agents open PRs; they never merge.
Before that: Principal Architect in JPMorgan Chase's Chief Technology Office (firmwide language strategy, OpenRewrite-based modernization), and Global Field CTO at Pivotal.
- Psyche: a personal AI cognitive system built as a set of MCP servers. Cross-session memory, semantic recall, thread-based context. 3,100+ commits, built almost entirely with AI coding agents.
- TarotPulse: flagship of RitualSync, consumer AI for symbolic-practice communities.
- ARCÆON: a rock opera of the major arcana.
- sigil-spinner: planetary sigils traced across the classical kamea as stylable inline SVG. CLI, library, and web component.
- 📘 Code Governance for AI-Native Software Development (O'Reilly report, early release, 2026)
- 📘 Migrating to Cloud-Native Application Architectures (O'Reilly)
- ✍️ Feral Architecture: essays on AI, engineering culture, and the inner life of the people who build software
- 🎙️ Rewired with Jaye Anne Beringer: what happens when you leave the rigid belief systems and start finding what's alive
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Building structures that don't domesticate the thing they're meant to support.