I’m the Tech Lead for a small but mighty digital agency here in Boston. On paper, my job is to guide the company toward technical excellence: overseeing day-to-day development, ensuring efficient operations, and balancing hands-on coding with long-term strategic planning for scalable solutions.

That's the elevator pitch, anyway. The job description glosses over the 15 years of operational entropy that actually defines the work.

The Authority of Experience

I’ve been shipping code since the days of table-based layouts, through the transition to RWD, and into the modern chaos of JS application and mobile development. I’ve worked on everything from international companies to true mom-and-pop shops. Most of that time was spent under the roof of one organization.

I have a passion for learning and problem solving. I enjoy going to conferences like JSNation and Drupalcon, to find the people who are in the trenches, running into the same absurd problems I am. I love process and thinking critically on how we work and feeling satisfation in what we do.

Part of my story, and part of the lens through which I see every technical problem, is my journey with mental health and ADD. I've been through CBT, navigated episodes of severe burnout, substance-abuse, anxiety, depression, inattention and struggling with the double-edged sword of hyperfocus.

This isn't a sob story, just the truth and sharing vulnerabilty.

A Note on the Writing Process

I want to be completely transparent that I use AI to help structure and edit these blog posts. All the ideas, observations, and anecdotes are mine and true. For me, struggling with structured communication and an unreliable attention span, there would be no blog without this tool. If you’re not cool with that, I completely understand.

The literature out there is overwhelmingly geared toward massive companies solving big company problems. That's fine, but that's not everyones reality. I doubt my experience of working for a small, high-velocity operation is unique, and I feel this blog can fill that space.

I'm not here to force answers, but I have to believe that after all these years there is something I can share that can be benifical to someone finding themselves in a similar position.