About

Where this started

Early in my career I watched capable people spend hours on work that had nothing to do with why they were hired. Not because they were disorganized, but because no one had built the thing to do it automatically. I wrote a script, the problem went away, and my department head put me on a team to find and fix problems like that full-time.

That's been the shape of my work for over twenty years. Find the thing that shouldn't require human attention. Build the thing that removes it.

Where it's going

The same pattern I've seen in enterprise environments exists everywhere. The plumber who's the best in his county but spends Sunday nights chasing invoices. The landscaper whose crews do excellent work but whose scheduling lives in a spreadsheet that breaks. The contractor who closes jobs fast but can't get expense tracking to stop eating her weekends.

These aren't technology problems. They're friction problems. The tools to remove that friction are buildable. That's what BitSalt is working toward.

Where we are now

I spent nearly twenty years building web-based applications...the full stack, from database to UI, across industries that don't have much in common except that they had problems worth solving. Four years ago I moved deliberately into AWS and cloud infrastructure, because that's where the leverage had shifted. I now work across both: application development and the cloud layer underneath it.

Redactus is the first BitSalt product—currently in beta. It surfaces AWS secrets that should have been rotated and weren't. It came from a problem I kept running into across multiple client environments and got tired of solving by hand. More tools are in development, each starting from the same place: a specific, painful workflow that shouldn't require human time.

Who should reach out

If you're running a small business and the work that keeps the lights on is crowding out the work you actually built the business to do, I want to hear about it. Not a sales call — just tell me what's eating your time. That's how the next tool gets built.