I started where a lot of CS students do — building things because they were interesting, not because anyone asked me to. At Washington University in St. Louis, that impulse turned into a senior project: a bot that mimicked my cross-country teammates' training journal entries using RNNs. It ran unattended for years. That was my first taste of shipping something real and watching it live in the world.

After graduating I joined StatsPerform, where I worked on sports data platforms — PressBox Live, Edge Analysis, tools that served real-time data to broadcasters and analysts. It was a big team, big systems, and a crash course in building things that had to work under pressure. I learned what production actually means when thousands of people are watching a live game.

While working full-time, I went back to school — Georgia Tech's MS in Computer Science, focusing on machine learning and NLP. Not because I needed the credential, but because I genuinely wanted to understand the math underneath the tools I was using. The NLP focus was a natural extension of that first bot project — language has always been the corner of ML that pulls me in.

Now I'm at Diana Health, a small healthcare startup where I'm one of a handful of engineers. The ownership is total — I've built entire product features from conception through delivery as the sole engineer. Action Plans, our in-app care planning tool, is mine start to finish. At a four-person engineering team, there's nowhere to hide and no one else to hand things off to. That's exactly how I like it.

What I value is pretty simple: craftsmanship, autonomy, and the space to do thoughtful work. I'd rather build one thing well than ship five things halfway. I'm drawn to small teams where decisions matter and you can see the shape of the whole system.

Outside the editor

Cooking is the creative outlet — mostly Asian-influenced, always learning. I approach it the way I approach code: study the technique, understand why it works, then improvise. Tasting menus are my version of going to a concert. I'm forever a student in the kitchen and that's the point.

I'm learning Japanese, slowly and stubbornly, with a trip to Japan planned for November 2026. Gaming skews toward systems with depth — World of Warcraft in the past, Spirit Island and Ark Nova at the table now. I ran competitively in college (that's where the bot came from) but these days movement is more about maintenance than miles.

Working together

I'm open to contract, freelance, or consulting work — especially anything touching ML/NLP. I'm not chasing compensation; I'm looking for interesting problems and people who care about the work. If that sounds like you, reach out.