About

I'm Jerry. I'm an engineer.

Twenty years in tech, spent moving between QA, product innovation, and solution architecture. I’m a senior director now. The title has changed a lot. The actual work hasn’t - take something complicated, make it make sense to someone else.

That’s most of what this site is. Not tutorials, judgment. The calls that don’t have a right answer, the tradeoffs nobody writes down, and what AI actually changed about engineering versus what it only looks like it changed. I co-wrote The Developer’s Guide to AI with Jacob Orshalick and Danny Thompson. No Starch published it in June 2026.

The rest of the time I’m taking something apart. There’s a mini PC under my desk running more than it probably should. I ran my first 10k after years of saying I would. I went vegan. I have two daughters and a dog, and one of the daughters recently informed me that GTA 6 will ship before I finish Demon Slayer.

She’s probably right.