About

Technologist, Father, Christian

I was born and raised in the foothills of Tennessee, and I haven’t strayed too far from my roots. My wife Hailey and I are raising three daughters, a handful of goats, some chickens, and a few pigs on our farm outside of Dunlap. It’s loud and it’s good.

I spent time in the United States Army Reserve as a Paratrooper and Psychological Operations Specialist — the Army taught me discipline and self-reliance in ways that still shape how I think and work today.

I’m an ordained Reformed Baptist minister and currently pastor a small house church that meets in our home. I take my faith seriously, which means I’m willing to say hard things about it. After a long and painful season of watching our local church drift into Christian Nationalism, we felt called to something smaller and more intentional — a gathering of people trying to love God and love their neighbors without the baggage.

Professionally I’m a cybersecurity engineer and people leader. I’ve spent years building security programs, leading teams, and trying to fix things one level deeper than where most people stop looking. I write about security, privacy, and the intersection of technology and power — because those things matter, and most people aren’t paying enough attention.

This blog is where all of those threads come together. You’ll find weekly security news roundups, technical guides, essays on faith and politics, and the occasional dispatch from the farm or the kitchen. If that sounds like a lot, it is. That’s the point.

I’m on Mastodon at @IAintShootinMis@DigitalDarkAge.cc, Signal at DigitalDarkAge.98, and I run a food blog over at food.mcafeehaus.com where I document the recipes that feed this family.