A short, honest version.

I'm Nick Cannariato. Birdcar is a nickname I've been called for long enough that it's the name on my email, my domain, and most places I exist on the internet.

I'm a solutions engineer at WorkOS. The job is real engineering — I write code, file PRs, and own a corner of the product — but my title has "support" in it on purpose. I like sitting next to the customer's problem. The best engineers I know all spent some time there.

On the side, I take on a small number of consulting projects for businesses in and around Dallas/Fort Worth. The practice is new, and I'm being deliberately slow about it. Most of my clients are CPAs, mortgage brokers, realtors, or operators running businesses between 100k and $2 million in revenue. They have spreadsheets that have gotten too important to be spreadsheets. I build the thing that replaces the spreadsheet.

What I care about

I care about software that respects the person using it. Most small-business software is sold by salespeople to people who don't have time to evaluate it. The result is usually fine and rarely good. I think a careful person, working closely with the team that will actually use the tool, can do much better in eight weeks than a procurement process can do in eight months.

I write at birdcar.dev/writing. I'm, against my better judgment, on LinkedIn.

Where I am

Fort Worth, Texas. Central time. I take meetings in person if you're nearby.

The setup

• Editor. Neovim, with bfm.nvim because I wrote the grammar and I use the grammar.
• Writing stack. Astro and Birdcar Flavored Markdown. The site is plain HTML once it's built.
• Coffee. Black cold brew. A cortado only if I'm feeling fancy.
• Currently learning. Where AI is actually useful vs just straight automation.