About
By day, I'm the Director of Technology at BloodHorse — a thoroughbred racing and breeding publication based in Lexington, Kentucky. My work sits at the intersection of media, data, and software: subscription platforms, mobile apps, AI content pipelines, data products, and the kind of legacy system archaeology that keeps things interesting. It's a niche industry with genuinely complex data problems, and I've been building systems inside it long enough to know where all the bodies are buried.
kygeek studio is where the rest of it lives.
I've been a hobbyist technologist longer than I've been a professional one. That means a homelab running on a fleet of servers named after rock bands, a standing interest in things I probably shouldn't be building myself, and a bias toward understanding how something works before trusting it. I publish The Second Order, a newsletter on AI and technology that tries to cut through the hype without pretending none of it matters.
Some of what I work on here
- AI tooling and experiments — applied LLM work, agentic pipelines, and handicapping systems for horse racing that are more serious than they sound
- LED and prop systems — I volunteer as technical lead for a high school marching band, which turns out to involve a surprising amount of engineering
- Infrastructure and homelab — self-hosted services, network design, the occasional rabbit hole I document so the next person doesn't have to suffer
- Data and analytics — because the interesting questions usually come down to the data eventually
I'm based in Lexington, Kentucky, which means I have strong opinions about horse racing, a healthy respect for bourbon, and a Tottenham Hotspur fandom that has taught me more about managing disappointment than any professional experience ever could.
kygeek studio is the umbrella for the projects, writing, and tools that don't fit neatly inside a job description. Some of it is polished. Some of it is work-in-progress. All of it is built by someone who is genuinely curious about how things fit together.
If something here is useful to you, that's exactly the point.