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 nostalgia-inducing 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
- re-watching gravity falls
- 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
- 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 125 days in a row (that's 12500 total)
- i've done 100 burpees a day for 34 days in a row (that's 3400 total)
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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 yearas soon as possible - figure out how to convert the projector screen into something with a motor
- organize the kid's corner of the garage
finish 3d printing the light up alien head (and order the LEDs)clean off all the storage shelves on the north wallclean the work bench off in the garageclean out the pile of junk in the northeast corner
- get rid of all this stuff
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🎧 curate the perfect digital garden of music
- you can see my favs on this janky, vibe-coded page
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🎸 read more musician memoirs
- deryck whibley
- geddy lee
- quincy jones
serj tankianmark hoppusdave grohl- (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
This about page was last updated on 2025-06-15