I'm on Red Hat's Identity Management team, working on 389 Directory Server — have been for over 10 years now. Building features, debugging hard customer problems, security hardening, diagnostic tools. I also maintain python-ldap, pyasn1, and OpenLDAP for Fedora and RHEL.

Outside of work, I run Dungeons & Dragons style games (Pathfinder 1e/2e, Cosmere RPG). Not that different from software engineering, really — learn complex systems fast, figure out what people actually need, make something engaging enough that they come back.

Projects

389 Directory Server

Developer (10+ years)
CRustPythonReactLDAP

Open Source Maintainer — pyasn1, python-ldap, OpenLDAP

Maintainer (pyasn1 since 2023, python-ldap since 2022, and OpenLDAP since 2020)
PythonCOpenLDAPASN.1RPM PackagingCI/CD

LDAP MCP Server

Side Project
PythonMCPLDAP

Posts

Glass Bridges

Glass Bridges
· 244 words · 2 min read

Trust builds slowly and breaks fast — whether you're interacting with your team or making a ruling at the table.

Level One Post

Level One Post
· 289 words · 2 min read

Ten years of software engineering, six years of game mastering — turns out they have more in common than you'd think.