About Me

From Canada to Swiss Village

I'm a Canadian software engineer who moved to Berkeley California chasing interesting work, met a Swiss economist, and followed her home to a small village in the canton of Bern more than twenty years ago. I'm still here.

What I've Built

I've written firmware for buses, built development tools for Mars Rover engineers, traded futures contracts on Wall Street, and helped a Swiss telecom automate its back office. Different industries, different problems, but I keep finding the same things underneath. Systems tangle in predictable ways. People get blocked for recognizable reasons.

What Drives Me

What consistently draws me in is the moment when something stuck starts to move. Not just faster, but alive. A team that finds its footing gets loud. Ideas start bouncing. That happens when people have room to think, not when they're buried. Create the space, and innovation tends to show up on its own. Nobody makes that happen alone. But being part of it, even once, is enough to keep you looking for it.

This Blog

I teach software engineering at a university in Bern. And in the gaps I study whatever interests me, storytelling, memory techniques, woodworking, habit formation, not as separate hobbies but as different angles on the same question:

What helps people grow, and what gets in their way?

Say Hello

This blog is where those threads meet. I'd love to hear from anyone who finds the borders between disciplines as interesting as the disciplines themselves.