about me

tl;dr:
lifelong nerd
- loves figuring out how things work
- likes making computers do cool things
- currently a senior software engineer at yardstik
- enjoys listening to music, walking, meeting new people, mindfulness, broomball, large language models, the color yellow, psychology, philosophy, and nostalgic media from my childhood
married to the greatest woman in the world
- karaoke, anytime, anywhere
- seeing musicals and pop punk shows irl
- crazy rummy on the patio
- lots of rupaul's drag race
amazing daughter
- watching her play in softball games and soccer matches
- playing catch and going on runs
- bike rides to JJs
amazing son
- minecraft for days
- song and dance performances in the kitchen
- mutually getting better at the monkey bars this summer
current goals
computer-related goals
- train a proprietary classification model
- design peg board holders for my tools and print them with my 3d printer
- fine tune a large language model
- analyze the data from the first big run of kneescraper to figure out which questions the locally-running LLM did well in answering
personal goals
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💪 do 100 situps and 100 burpees every single day (no exceptions)
- i've done 100 situps a day for 105 days in a row
- i've done 100 burpees a day for 14 days in a row
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🎧 curate the perfect digital garden of music
- current vibes and favorite albums available to browse on this janky, vibe-coded page
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🎸 read more musician memoirs
serj tankianmark hoppus- dave grohl (in progress)
- quincy jones
- (send me more suggestions in this genre please)
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🏚️ rebuild the back patio
- pick out patio pavers
- budget out cost of fill and pavers based on estimated size of patio
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👽 turn the garage into a 70s ufo/alien themed chill zone
- get rid of all this stuff before the end of the school year
- finish 3d printing the light up alien head (and order the LEDs)
clean the work bench off in the garage
This about page was last updated on 2025-05-31