I work at PostHog on the Logs team. We do high-throughput data ingestion, ClickHouse, streaming; all the stuff that has to work when a million events all hit at once. Before that I was at Microsoft for five years building AI tools. I learned a ton and eventually realized I needed to go somewhere I could actually ship things without twelve layers of approval.
I grew up across British Coumbia, Quebec and Ontario. I have an off-grid lake-access-only property that is basically the center of my universe. I've built cabins there. Built docks. I have a pontoon boat named Doug because it felt like a dad name for a dad boat — the kind of boat you barbecue on one day and haul lumber with the next. I call myself a professional putterer. My happiest state is wandering around my property finding things to fix or build. This is also how I write software.
My wife Kristina is opening The Muddy Goose, a community pottery studio in Fremont, Seattle. I say "we're opening it" but if I'm being real she's the one doing everything and I'm the cheerleader standing beside her so she doesn't feel like she's on her own. It's named after a cat she found so far in the middle of nowhere that there wasnt a house within 75km. She named him 'Silly Goose'. Our current cat Harold has not earned a business named after him yet.
I'm also building OutfitterHQ — software for wilderness canoe and kayak outfitters. It ties together the two sides of my brain: the engineering side and the side that grew up doing canoe portaging trips on old lumber paths in northern Ontario getting absolutely destroyed by mosquitoes. I spent one night in a hammock in bug season up there and you would have to genuinely convince me that it didn't give me PTSD. I have my first design partner and I'm curious to see where it takes me!
Some other stuff about me:
I've summited Rainier, Adams, Baker, Glacier Peak, St. Helens, Hood, and a bunch of others. Sunrise above 10,000 feet is the best thing I've ever experienced and I will never stop chasing it. I love ski touring and have done backcountry trips in remote parts of BC.
I flew to Japan, found the cheapest used bike with a rack on it that I could buy as a non-resident (this was weirdly hard, all bikes need to be registered like cars), and biked from Hiroshima to Fuji (where I sold the bike to an Indian Restaurant). We took mountain routes and biked through rain in flip flops to save our shoes. Got headbutted by a bowing deer. Got surrounded by monkeys who decided we were in THEIR campsite. 10/10 would do again.
I did a 10 day Vipassana silent meditation retreat in Sweden. It was one of the hardest things I've done and also the thing that made my cognitive science degree suddenly make sense. I finally got to experience all the things I'd only studied.
I worked at a party hostel (Grandio) in Budapest for a while. Bar crawls through ruin bars, party boats on the Danube, MC'ing open mic nights. I got on the wrong train once and ended up in the wrong country. I love people and I love how fast you can get to know someone when everyone's a little bit lost in the same place.
I've started my pilot's license twice. The dream is a float plane and remote lakes. The rational part of my brain keeps shutting it down. The dream is still there.
I studied computer science and cognitive science. I'm Canadian, living in Seattle. BC is three times the size of Japan and I think about that more often than is probably normal.
Oh and while you're here... my mom is a graphic designer and makes awesome shirts. It would make her week if you bought one → Buck & Boo.
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