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I’m a founding engineer at OpenAthena. Here, I help build foundation models for various fields of science. The first domain I’m focusing on is neuroscience in a partnership with UCSF. Before this role, I used to work at Google Research. There, I developed machine-learning applications for the weather. A lot of the time this meant making weather data easier to work with, if not specific datasets. If you've Googled the weather and saw a bar that told you how soon it was going to rain, you've used my old team's main product. I've been lucky so far that a lot of my work involves contributing to open source. Before joining Google, I've had a mix of software engineering and machine learning roles.

All over California, really. I grew up in San Diego (north county) and went to college there, too. I lived in Oakland for a few years, then in the Santa Cruz/Monterey area. During the pandemic, I found myself in the central coast near SLO. When things cleared up a bit, Cam and I moved to LA for a year to help support family. Hey, maybe one day I'll end up in Chico or Mt. Shasta.

Currently, I live in Aromas, CA. (It's about 100 miles south of San Francisco.)

Wow, what an impossible question! Well, I have a soft spot for Vietnam. We only visited the top half of the country, but boy does it have it all: natural beauty, rich culture and history, delicious food and, in my opinion, the best coffee in the world. Next on my list is probably Türkiye. There's something really special about that place.

We're lucky enough to have spent a good deal of time on trains in both countries; I wonder if that has something to do with it.

Why, thank you for asking! In a world of streaming music, it's common to say that one's tastes are eclectic. This certainly is true for me, however, it doesn't really speak to the shape of my preferences. Let me show rather than tell what I like (with the help of everynoise.com):

• Here are all my playlists. I've been cataloguing all the songs I encounter, saving the ones that are new-to-me in lists organized by month & year (since ~ 2016).

• Try clicking on the "tracks" link for a playlist. For example, here are the tracks in my 2022 jan playlist.

• If a genre seems interesting to you, click the link to explore artists that create music associated with that genre. For example, I listen to a bunch of art pop.

Thanks! This website is mostly generated HTML and CSS. In an effort to keep things simple, my generator consists of some shell scripts that invoke pandoc (Check out the source, or consider making your own shell-powered website). I thought I would have to replace my hacked-together solution with a "real" static site generator until I found this awesome project for generating an RSS feed! It seems like I'm not the only pandoc obsessed developer out there (there are dozens of us!). I guess the allure of creating a website in PowerPoint is too strong to let go...

If you find any part of it that is not accessible or generally unusable, please reach out to me, and I'll correct it.

Yes – but that depends a lot on your situation. Please, email me (or reach out some other way). I'm happy to give you my 2¢.

Like, not really.