About

Let's start with work oriented descriptive terms, as my leisure time is often mixed in with engineering passions. The 'oft heard refrain,"well, work pays the bills", has existed as a secondary factor since the early 2000s - when engineering began to exceed the priority of mainline interests, hobbies, and occasionally of passions non-tactile.

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Eva is a systems architect with a quarter-century career focused on engineering global infrastructures for high-performance compute, distributed storage, accelerated networking, database clusters, and associated platforms with tens of thousands of bare-metal systems.

From critical-path embedded systems to federated hyperscale cache fleets, the same engineering discipline exists throughout: high-performing systems exist because they are designed well, resilient when failure-states are preempted, and consistent because standards matter. She focuses on building globally distributed platforms that remain stable, secure, and operationally sane under sustained load.

All of the Things to Love

Ideally, the list of loves is longer than those of disfavor, and generally so with the ways in which this nor-endless supply of time may be accounted and allocated towards.

From the thigh burning arts of Telemark and Backcountry Skiing, Free Diving favorite reefs in the tropics of Central America and the South Pacific, some tens of thousands of miles of Road and Cross-Country Cycling, Long Range Marksmanship (AICS/308), to Wilderness Trekking and Winter Mountaineering.

The List of Loves is an ongoing tale of endurance, of pain and struggle, and overcoming adversity in the classical sense of Sisyphean ways and means.

Consuming the Written Word

My forever fondness for the written word is typified on three primary genres.

• Non-Fiction: biographies and autobiographies of classical High-Altitude Mountaineering climbers, as well as their peers in the terrifying endurance tales of 19-20th century Arctic and Antarctic explorations. Perhaps as the only one-man out of the fray, it was Webb Chiles' first book which drew my attention to solo global circumnavigation by sail ("Storm Passage: Alone around Cape Horn", a record-breaking 203 days in 1977).
• Hard Science Fiction: cyberpunk, space marines, synthetic human engineering, dystopian futures, and tales of sentience instantiation. The genre is expansive, beautiful, yearning.
• Historical Romance: an enduring propensity for mid-20th century tales of love, set to the backdrop of decades surrounding "The Great War" and World War II and everything in-between: tales of forbidden love which often end more desperately than Juliet's worst nightmares, of sacrifice, of loyalty and honor, yet too often simply hope turned to tragedy (hint: our people did not fare-thee-well).

Expressions via Externalization

Driven to comprehend the expansiveness of this often tumultuous sensory world, earlier and more innocent years found emotion channeled towards expressiveness via short stories, discretely ghost-authored research papers, and penned poetry now archived into the rarest of recollections. Photography endures as a primary modality: from 35 mm film to digital capture, each image serving as a disciplined study in autobiographical memory.