A bit of background

I've worked in cybersecurity for most of my adult life — starting out as an IT auditor in the early 2000s, moving through risk management and security consulting, and for the past several years working on the vendor side, helping technology partners turn security investments into something that helps both them and their customers. It's less about any one technology and more about translating between the technical and the practical — the work that happens in the space between a good idea and an organisation actually being able to use it.

Work first brought me to Stockholm in 2002, and it's been home ever since — long enough that I eventually became a Swedish citizen alongside my American one. Most days that means a fairly Nordic existence, with the occasional reminder that I didn't grow up here.

Travel is where most of my curiosity goes outside of work. I'd rather get to know a handful of places well than tick off a long list — repeat visits, slower itineraries, and a preference for wherever the locals actually go over wherever the guidebooks point. A few of those places end up here, under Travel.

Outside of all that: I read constantly and without much discipline about genre, I like taking new technology apart to see how it works, I'm a reasonably competent cook when the mood strikes, and — as you may have gathered — I occasionally DJ under a different name.