I immerse in things until they pull me somewhere else.

The arc — non-linear, on purpose.

1. Age 8. TI BASIC on a TI-99/4A. The hook set early.
2. School years. Violin / fiddle. Flight lessons.
3. U.S. Air Force, 1994–1998. Aerospace Ground Equipment.
4. Hawaii, 1997–1999. Two hats — Realtor selling real estate, and the firm’s principal IT person.
5. Tropical Connection, 1999–2001. IS Manager. The on-ramp back to coding.
6. Smart Solutions, 2002–2007. The C# / .NET professional reset.
7. Pixelsilk, 2007–2012. Five years of product alongside engineering.
8. BA in Education, Ashford, 2012. Formal degree is in Education, not CS.
9. Xero, 2013–2018. 100+ two-week sprints on a 2M-user SaaS.
10. Capital One, 2018–2022. Master Platform Engineer at a top-10 US bank.
11. 2021 — Kora Labs founded with my second-eldest son. Cardano because of academic discipline, decentralization, and RealFi mission.
12. May 2022. Left Capital One full-time for Cardano.
13. 2022–present. Building handle.me full-time.
14. Last six months. AI infrastructure. The current immersion.

Flatten this into a clean tech-bro arc and you lose the most distinct thing about it.