Spectral / 2026

Independent engineer & creative technologist

Systems
with feeling.

I make complex things feel effortless.

Code meets craft.Portland, Oregon
38%lower p95 search latency
4engineers mentored to ownership
3teams using the shared playbook

Selected work

Systems, interfaces & people
01 / Northstar Search

Less noise. More signal.

A ranking rebuild, an evaluation workflow, and four engineers ready to own what came next.

Relevance workbenchInteractive
  1. 01
    Ranking evaluation playbookEngineering / Search
    Direct answer
  2. 02
    Search service ownershipRunbooks / Platform
    Useful context
  3. 03
    Search team meeting notesArchive / Meetings
    Keyword overlap
Useful evidence first. Review before release.

Interactive reconstruction · Sample documents

02 / Fieldwork Labs

Built to be built on.

One useful operations workspace. A handover playbook that three product teams could build on.

Fieldwork / Handover0 of 3 reviewed
The next useful action

Ranking rollout

Review evaluation notes before the next stage.

Runbook

Compare baseline and proposed results, confirm the release owner, then choose the next rollout stage.

Interactive reconstruction · Changes stay in this example

The thread through the work

Build something
others can carry forward.