Hi, I'm TC.

  • 💻 Engineering Leader | Technical Architect | Founding Engineer
  • ☘️ Driven by curiosity and a love for learning
  • 📚 Lifelong learner | 🎲 Systems thinker | 🌱 Gardener | 🥧 Baker

I am a versatile engineering professional with a strong track record of driving efficiency, collaboration, and technical excellence. Whether leading teams or contributing as an individual contributor, I focus on streamlining processes, optimizing resources, and delivering results. My approach combines technical expertise with a commitment to fostering growth, trust, and innovation within teams.

With hands-on experience in backend engineering, cloud architecture, and systems design, I bring proficiency in Python, Java, Kotlin, and AWS. I thrive on solving complex technical challenges and am passionate about mentoring others, shaping strategies, and building sustainable systems that drive impact.

Curiosity and growth fuel my work.

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About me

I’m eager to contribute—whether as a leader or individual contributor— to create meaningful solutions.

Let’s build something extraordinary, focused on people, purpose and progress.


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Journal reflections on my recent experiences and resume are here.

Projects

dragon & bao ecommerce site

prototype site for extending astro

May 06, 2025

LunchNotes - Giant growth in a trillion effortless steps.

Concept of combining brain plasticity with a trading card game to help kids learn.

Apr 01, 2025

Chore Board Game

Chore Board Game - Giant growth in a trillion effortless steps.

Mar 30, 2025

Blog Posts

FastApi Concurrency and Threadpools

Tying it to Gunicorn, DBs, and Async

Jun 04, 2025

Backend for Hospitals - Part 1

FastApi + Postgres + Docker + AWS RDS + AWS Lambda + CloudFormation

Jun 03, 2025

updates - typing skills, fastapi/python/redis and hay fever in Amsterdam and all that nonsense

updates on what I have been up to

May 22, 2025

setting up tmux: custom

tmux playtime

May 15, 2025

Experiences

Founding Engineer

ManaBurn

Jun 11, 2023 - Oct 01, 2024

Technical Architect/Founding Engineer

Myndsens - wellness startup

Jun 01, 2022 - Apr 10, 2024

Software Engineer

Wells Fargo & Co

Jul 01, 2004 - Apr 10, 2021

Get in touch

My time

Now

“Playing with astro - round 2”

Learn more about "now"

Daily Quote

It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows!

- Epictetus

Build Status

Books I am reading

Where my head is at these days: