about me

Tim straddling on a stool with a goofy facial expression

tl;dr

  • currently looking for a fractional CTO or "founding engineer"-type role, especially with a founder who deeply understands a problem domain and needs someone technical to architect and execute a solution
  • enjoys listening to music, moving my body, dreaming with others, making computers do useful things, mindfulness, broomball, large language models, and the color yellow
  • my favorite fictional characters right now are uncle iroh (from avatar: the last airbender) and elle mcgibbons (from dungeon crawler carl)

married to the greatest woman in the world

  • karaoke, anytime, anywhere
  • seeing musicals and pop punk shows irl
  • dreaming about the future together
  • rupaul's drag race season 18
  • working on perfecting our "signatures"
    • cocktails: need to decide on something with gin (possible name: 'the perennial'), a classic wisconsin old fashioned, a s'mores chocolate brandy drink, and chocolate martinis
    • appetizers: large pretzel with good cheese sauce, spring rolls
    • meals: pork schnitzel with spätzle, rice bowls with chipotle-inspired mix-ins, taco meat + salad kit + tortilla chips
    • desserts: crème brûlée, molten chocolate lava cake

my incredible kiddos

  • minecraft, roblox, and pokemon for days
  • movie nights (recently watched space jam and three ninjas, both still slap)
  • song and dance performances around the house
  • working with my daughter toward our black belts in kung fu
  • walking home from school with my son

main focuses

💻 do some cool things with computers

  • experiment with AI as much as possible
    • build a system for generating vibe coded pages and hosting them on this domain somewhere
    • fine tune a large language model to extract specific data from unstructured surgical reports

💪 get buff as hell

  • every day, no matter what, i do 100 sit-ups
  • looking for a replacement for my GTX class since it would be irresponsible for me to pay $280/mo for a gym membership while i'm looking for a new job
  • in the meantime, i get by with apple fitness workouts and burpees
  • i want to be more flexible, so i want to start stretching every night while watching TV

🛜 run ethernet cable throughout my house

  • buy a long skinny drill bit to find an access drop for these cables
  • cut the hole into the ceiling from the attic
  • run the cable across the attic to the hallway where you want the ceiling node to drop

🛠️ patch the wall in my daughter's room

  • remember how to do drywall repair lol
  • design some sort of cabinet door to maintain the easy access to the shower shutoffs on the other side

perennial projects

🎧 curate the perfect digital garden of music

  • it's a new year, christmas reset my musical palette, so i cleared things out on current vibes.
  • i've been mostly listening to my "key albums" collection, which you can find on this janky, vibe-coded page that reads directly from my plex library

on deck

🧰 clean off the work bench

  • empty the “indoor” box that's been sitting on the bench forever
  • attempt sealing the gutter again (find disposable gloves)
  • finish mario kart trophy (can I 3d print a plaque?)
  • figure out how to 3d print containers for these things
    • work gloves
    • the ifixit kit
    • the new screwdriver kit i got for christmas
    • [and more?]

👽 turn the garage into the prototypical 90s kid room

  • organize the kid's corner of the garage
  • create a stage that folds down. when upright, it holds all my tools and whatnot.

🎧 make my own music player

🏚️ rebuild the back patio

  • when spring comes:
    • set final grades & strings
    • add bedding sand
    • lay pavers
    • compact + edging
    • sweep joint sand
    • garden bed fill
    • glue wall caps

🛋️🎧💻📚 build my own office

This about page was last updated on 2026-01-15. I frequently update this page because it keeps me focused on my goals. If I had a mirror in my house all to myself, this stuff would be written on post-it notes and plastered all around it.