Hi, I’m Steve!

I help people build things better and thrive when I’m at the intersection of a bunch of disciplines with just a little chaos. I’ve worn a lot of hats over the years: musician, photographer, salesperson, UI engineer, visual and UX designer, engineering leader, and, most recently, incident commander. They may seem like unrelated careers, but I’ve always enjoyed finding the threads that connect them—the ways one discipline changes how you think about another.

This site is a place for me to build, write, and learn. I’m not particularly interested in adding more “thought leadership” to the internet, but I do like taking ideas that have been floating around in my head and forcing myself to make sense of them by writing them down. Sometimes something useful comes out the other end.

I’ve worked in tech across a variety of teams and roles for over 20 years, and seen company growth work, and not work, in a variety of ways. While I love what I do, I try not to let it completely define me and spend as much time as possible with my wife and dog Luca in Vancouver, BC and travel as much as I can.

My path over the years has been meandering by any reasonable definition. I originally went to school for classical music before becoming a professional musician, working primarily in jazz and commercial settings. From there my career unfolded in less predictable ways. As much as I enjoyed being on stage, I started to pursue photography, design, then engineering, engineering management, and eventually incident response.

Most recently I was Head of Incident Response at Chime, working with a team of Incident Commanders responding to hundreds of incidents, working with thousands of employees, for millions of members.