Hi, I’m Steve.
I’m the Head of Technology at Patriot Software. I write here mostly about AI, observability, and leadership.
Writing
Gripgrep: Lessons in AI-Driven Optimization
What it takes to get AI agents through a hard optimization problem: real benchmarks, hard evidence, and the right tools — learned by rebuilding ripgrep in Go without writing any code by hand.
Announcing Bloom
Introducing Bloom, an agentic collaborative orchestrator designed to maximize collaboration across product, design, and engineering throughout the software development lifecycle.
About
I studied jazz guitar at Oberlin and spent years in music and ministry before moving into DevOps, then platform work, then leadership. Today I’m the Head of Technology at Patriot Software.
Most of what I write about comes from that: how teams actually ship, what changes when AI shows up in the workflow, and how to lead people through it.