About Me

Hi, I'm Michael. Here's a bit about what makes me, well, me.

Contact Info

Work

I'm a Software Engineer/SRE on the Core Systems team at ZipRecruiter. I formerly worked at Foursquare on their Infrastructure Engineering team.

I work with Kubernetes and find it fascinating and fun.

Hobbies

I still watch a bit of anime and play some games, but I primarily follow Japanese idols from the Love Live! franchise in my free time. I love to share my passion for Love Live!, so they'll feature on my blog with some frequency. Love Live! is also a good motivator for my ongoing battle with learning Japanese. If I have a good breakthrough in self-study, I'll share it.

I enjoy playing darts with friends. It's a lot of fun even though I'm not great.

I run a reasonably large homelab which is full of old enterprise gear. I also self-host Kubernetes, its both fun and totally overkill. My lab has its own special flavor of jank, which eventually will make its way into posts.

I love attending conventions! I try to attend SCaLE, Anime Expo, and Def Con every year.