Salesforce Architect at Convergint by day — Trailhead Ranger, 11-time certified, and still the platform work that's interesting enough to be a pursuit on its own.
Enterprise architecture is the day job, but the parts of the Salesforce ecosystem worth geeking out on go beyond any one employer's org — platform design patterns, where declarative tooling should stop and code should start, data architecture that survives five years of org growth instead of collapsing under it, and the systems-thinking habits that turn out to be useful for absolutely everything else on this site.
The certification path traces the arc of that: starting as a Certified Administrator in 2012, moving through App Builder and Platform Developer, and landing on Application Architect, Data Architect, Integration Architect, and Development Lifecycle & Deployment Architect by 2020 — the same progression from "keep the org running" to "design the system" that shows up in every build on this site, just with a different toolset.
This page will track the side of it that's genuinely a hobby: experiments in a scratch org, opinions on architecture patterns worth arguing about, and whatever's currently interesting in the ecosystem.