The story starts on military bases — much of it in England — a childhood spent between cultures, between systems, watching how different worlds organized themselves. When you grow up overseas, you learn early that everything built by people is a choice. And that choices can be made better.
Engineering was never a career decision. It was a temperament. First the networks at AT&T, where uptime is a promise you keep at 3 a.m. Then Amazon Web Services, where the systems he helps build and operate carry a measurable fraction of the world's daily life.
Somewhere along the way the work split into three instincts that never left: build the thing, teach the thing, preserve the evidence. Parable Labs. The Knowles Collection. KnowlesOS.
And then fatherhood — the moment the question changed from "what can I build?" to "what will they inherit?" Every project since has been an answer.
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