I have spent my career close to the places where software, security, automation, and real people meet. I like getting beneath the demo, figuring out what actually happens, and then making the useful part easier for somebody else to see or use.
My interests move between serious systems and things I simply love: cars, games, photography, LEGO, and watching birds in the yard. I don't need them to look related before I start. Often the useful connection shows up once I've built something.
The view from here
I started publishing little calculator programs as a teenager. Some were clever, some were unfinished, and all of them came from wanting the device in my hand to do something more. I can look back at that engineer with affection and an honest eye. The work today has more experience behind it, but the question is familiar: what else is possible here?
How I work
I learn a tool by using it. I care about evidence, clear limits, and whether an idea makes sense outside my head. That can mean building a public decision tool, testing how AI can keep useful context, or turning a personal collection into an interface people can actually use.
Why this address
l3it3r.com is where those threads can live together. It is a personal home for current work, older artifacts, and ideas still earning their shape. My consulting business has its own home at leiter.email; VersionCompass keeps its own address too.