A self-taught software engineer. Raised in the mountains of Santa Cruz. Currently working at Netflix in Los Gatos where he has worked on the iOS application focused on interactive content, but recently moved to the post-production digital asset management system. His work makes movies better.

Since 2000, actively producing and hosting four interview-based podcasts: WeAreNetflix, The Important Thing, The Art of Change, and Geek Speak with Lyle Troxell. Also, a volunteer trustee to a community center which houses the theatre company his parents co-founded.

An interviewer, photographer, public speaker, an amateur blacksmith, and father of three teenagers.