OSS-focused engineer with ~20 years building scalable, resilient platforms. Denver-based. Ruby-first. I like clean systems, boring reliability, and tools that quietly delete friction.

Most of my open-source work lives under @TwilightCoders—a collection of Ruby gems and utilities I've built to solve real problems in Rails apps and developer workflows.

I maintain a suite of ActiveRecord extensions and Rails tools:

• active_record-mti — Native PostgreSQL multi-table inheritance for ActiveRecord
• rubysu — Give Ruby objects superuser privileges
• enumerate — True enumeration support for ActiveRecord
• deleted_at — Soft-delete with database persistence
• quick_count — Fast record counting for large tables
• ...and many more

Building tools that make development workflows better:

• 👨🏼‍✈️ claudepilot — Mobile app that gives you on-the-go access to your running Claude Code sessions on your dev box. "Code" from anywhere.
• 💻 alterminal — An alternative terminal for VS Code
• 💎 gemplate — Self-referencing Ruby gem templating
• 🧰 ergane — Lightweight, powerful CLI tools in Ruby
• 📆 GCalSync — Google Scripts app for syncing two Google calendars

Home-lab / bare-metal curiosity: FreeNAS/TrueNAS plugins, Hackintosh configs, and "know-the-whole-stack" builds. I like understanding the system end-to-end — from hardware to production behavior.

I'm into overlanding and real estate — the same "ship-it, make-it-sturdy" mindset, just applied to trucks and properties.

I believe simple, elegant systems outperform complex ones. I'd rather write 50 lines of clear code than 200 lines of "enterprise-grade" abstraction. The best software disappears — it just works.

⛰️ Colorado, USA

• GitHub: @TwilightCoders / @voltechs
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/volte/
• Website: https://voltechs.com