Rob is a software engineer and engineering team lead with 15 years of experience, currently based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He spends most of his working life navigating the messy, high-stakes decisions that come with building distributed systems at scale — architecture tradeoffs, technical vision, and the human side of leading engineering teams.

Midnight Thinker is his notebook made public: a place to work through ideas in software engineering, leadership, technology, and the books and concepts that won't leave him alone. No particular schedule, no particular audience — just thinking out loud, done properly.