Who am I?

I'm Tanner. I build things for the web — full-stack, all the way through. The database schema, the API layer, the interface someone actually touches. I love that a single person can hold the whole picture and ship something real. That's the part I never get tired of.

Right now I work at Visa, where I build platforms at the intersection of machine learning and product engineering. Control planes, federated services, UIs that make complex systems feel simple. The kind of work where good abstractions save hundreds of people time they didn't know they were losing.

I've gone deep on agentic AI — not the hype, the craft. AI as a genuine collaborator: exploring architecture, stress-testing decisions, turning a rough idea into a working diff in one session. I think the best software is about to be built by humans and agents together, and I want to be at that edge.

What drives me is building products and experiences — for users who'll never see a line of code, and for engineers who live in it every day. I care about the details: the component API that feels obvious, the deploy pipeline that just works, the error message that actually helps. Craft is the word. I take it seriously.

Outside of code, I read — a lot. Fiction, technical papers, long essays. It's how I think. I write to make sense of what I'm learning and to leave breadcrumbs for anyone working on the same problems. Side projects are the playground. This site is one of them.

Want the formal version? There's a resume for that. Otherwise — I build systems people depend on, and I try to make the work feel human.