Principal Developer Advocate @ AWS
📍 Blairsville, GA — deep in the Blue Ridge Mountains
☕ 22 years of building things for the web
AWS (expert) · Oracle Cloud (expert) · GCP (novice)
Raspberry Pi · Arduino · Microcontrollers · Nixie Tubes · IoT everything
🏠 Building miniature homes & book nooks (dozens built, backlog growing)
🥾 Hiking the Blue Ridge foothills
🔧 Soldering things that probably don't need to be soldered
🐔 Chicken dad x7 · 🐕 Dog dad x2 · 🐈 Cat dad x1
🐷 Former pig dad (RIP Milton the potbelly pig)
The game's source had a misspelled command string.
I found it. I fixed it. I was hooked. The rest is history.
👨👩👧👦 Two college-aged kids
🐕 One mutt + one English cream long-haired miniature dachshund
🐈 One cat who runs the house
🐔 Seven chickens who think they run the yard
Gateway to the Appalachian Trail. Home to Brasstown Bald (highest point in GA).
Vogel State Park. Legendary fall foliage. Zero traffic.
The kind of place where your neighbors wave and your chickens have names.
# README.md
📖 Published Works
Build, Test, and Deploy Java Microservices on Oracle Cloud
...to the Oracle Cloud with GitHub Actions
🔗 Links
🧪 Published Workshops
🚀 Featured Projects
React app combining Amazon GameLift Streams with IVS for multi-view cloud gaming experiences.
Python demos for IVS: AI-powered video analysis, real-time transcription, speech-to-speech, timed metadata, and media processing.
Interactive cloud-powered card game built on Amazon IVS. Translated into Japanese! 🇯🇵
Live streaming from an ESP32 microcontroller to Amazon IVS via WHIP protocol. Hardware meets cloud.
Arduino firmware for controlling Nixie tube displays using Momento Topics for real-time updates.
Web frontend for configuring and controlling Nixie tube displays through an intuitive interface.
📸 Life in Pictures
⏳ The Journey
~1986
Fixed a misspelled command in a Commodore 64 text adventure game. First bug fix. First line of code. Hooked for life.
2011 — Booz Allen Hamilton
Led dev teams on multimillion-dollar government contracts. Full-stack development for DoD and VA systems. Architected enterprise apps and managed database migrations. 7 years of building serious things for serious people.
2018 — Oracle
Sr. Developer Advocate for Cloud & Cloud DB. Consistently top-producing author on Oracle Developers blog (100K+ yearly views). Go-to evangelist for new cloud product launches. ~12 conferences per year.
2019 — Oracle CloudWorld Keynote
Delivered keynote presentation and appeared as featured guest in SVP keynote session at Oracle's flagship Code One conference.
2020 — First Book
Self-published "Build, Test & Deploy a Micronaut Microservice to the Oracle Cloud with GitHub Actions".
2022 — Apress Book + AWS
Published "Introducing Micronaut" with Apress. Joined AWS/Twitch as Principal Developer Advocate. New chapter begins.
2022-Present — AWS
Blog posts averaging 50K+ annual views. Weekly live-stream show with 250K+ views (top 20% on AWS Twitch). Pioneered first open-source project integrating IVS with Amazon Nova voice agents. Built IVS Cloud Cards — translated into Japanese!
2024-2026 — Japan JAWS Tours
Multiple trips across Japan presenting at JAWS user group events and festivals. Tokyo (2024, 2025, 2026), Hiroshima & Osaka (2024), Kanazawa (2025), Kyoto (2026). A recurring career highlight.
Mar 2026 — GDC San Francisco
Selected for a featured demo at GDC 2026 showcasing GameLift Streams + Amazon IVS. Attended the Atari/Digital Eclipse mixer. Retro computing and gaming dream come true.
Now
Still building. Still shipping. Still fixing bugs in text adventures (metaphorically). 246 blog posts and counting.