I am always coding. Always. Not a week has passed by in the past 20+ years that I have not written code in some form. Yes, even on vacation I'm coding.

I am super passionate about helping people through software. I love the entire software engineering discipline. Especially test-driven development, continuous integration, and security.

My best open source project to date is Squib: a Ruby gem for prototyping tabletop games. The board game design process is an arduous one: you are constantly iterating on building components and making adjustments. Squib makes all that easier. It's your tool to start with and will bring you all the way to pixel-perfect components, always maintaining your ability to accommodate change. Squib is used by many people around the world to help realize their dreams of making a great board game.

Sponsorship for me means that I can spend more time on Squib and my other board game projects. I have donated all of my tabletop games to open source, so that others can benefit from my example code. I'm all about eating my own dogfood - Squib improves when I can work on my games and find opportunities for more ergonomic automation.

Professionally, I'm teacher-scholar whose expertise lies in engineering secure software with empirical methods. My students say I'm enthusiastic and passionate. I'm an expert on software metrics, vulnerabilities, and human factors. However, that work is funded through other means - this sponsorship is intended for my other open source work.