I am an Principal Product Engineer with a deep passion for solving tough problems and technical puzzles.
A few things that I do, from which you might've heard my name before:
- ✨ Build and help grow dev tools that make engineers more productive (see my work on my Microsoft-linked GitHub account -
@localden). - 🎙️ Record a podcast where I interview notable folks about their career journeys and hard lessons learned along the way.
- ☕️ Build a massively-adopted open source utility to keep your Windows machine awake.
- 📕 Maintain a list of resources to help product managers grow.
- 🌳 Maintain a directory of personal blogs and websites for folks to discover corners of the internet they haven't seen before.
- 💻 Reverse-engineered a popular button box.
- 🪐 Built a bunch of Halo-related tools that made it easier to analyze my in-game performance.
In the past I've reverse engineered and documented the Halo Infinite REST API (you can check out OpenSpartan and Grunt), Zune REST API, and the Xbox media API, among others.
You can find me on Bluesky, Mastodon, GitHub, LinkedIn, YouTube, Stack Overflow, and Hacker News.