About
I build websites, wrangle DNS, and keep things running — carefully and without unnecessary noise.
I'm a Toronto-based web developer and digital specialist with a background that doesn't follow a straight line. Art history and curatorial studies, then education and ESL teaching, then a long and deliberate pivot into technical work. The through-line is that I think about structure and context before I think about tools — which tends to produce cleaner results.
For the past several years I've been building and maintaining the web presence for the Blood in the Snow Film Festival — every edition, every archive page, every component — and handling digital production for the Deadly Exposure Industry Conference. I'm also a Board member at BITS. These are projects I care about and have shaped from the ground up.
My technical work covers DNS infrastructure, email authentication (DKIM, DMARC, SPF), domain operations, web hosting, and fraud prevention. I'm the kind of person who writes the bug report and also reads the RFC.
The handle sdotrock is about twenty years old. I maintain a deliberately minimal public footprint, which is why this page exists — just enough signal.
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