About
Backend engineer. Recovering oboist.
I'm a backend engineer who works on financial systems — revenue, subledger reporting, and prior authorization — mostly in Python and SQL. I've spent about eleven years at the same company, starting in data engineering and moving into software engineering over that time.
Before software, I was a musician. I have a bachelor's in oboe performance (University of South Carolina) and a master's in music performance (CCM), and I went back for a computer-engineering degree (University of Cincinnati) somewhere in the middle. I still perform — principal oboe and pianist with regional orchestras — and I teach private lessons in oboe, sax, and piano.
Outside of work I build things: Stele, a bitemporal database written from scratch in Rust; Solvia, a platform for lab revenue-cycle management; data-pipeline tooling; a bare-metal Kubernetes homelab; and the occasional operating system. Most of it lives at github.com/fricker-studios.
The throughline is correctness. I like systems where the numbers have to be right and someone notices when they aren't — billing, ledgers, reporting, and the databases underneath. That's the work I want more of.