about me

Tim straddling on a stool with a goofy facial expression

me, in a nutshell

  • loves figuring out how things work
  • likes making computers do interesting things
  • currently a senior software engineer at yardstik
  • enjoys listening to music, moving my body, meeting new people, mindfulness, broomball, large language models, the color yellow, oktoberfest brews, psychology, philosophy, and uncle iroh from "avatar: the last airbender"

married to the greatest woman in the world

  • karaoke, anytime, anywhere
  • seeing musicals and pop punk shows irl
  • getting as much autumn in as possible
  • crazy rummy on the patio
  • lots of rupaul's drag race

my incredible kiddos

  • settling into the new rhythms of the school year
  • minecraft and roblox for days
  • k-pop demon hunters, gravity falls, and halloween movies
  • song and dance performances around the house

main focuses

💻 become a stronger software engineer

  • train a proprietary classification model to categorize criminal offenses
  • fine tune a large language model to extract specific data from unstructured surgical reports

💪 get buff as hell

  • since december 2024, i've done 100 situps a day for 263 days
  • since may 2025, i've done 100 burpees a day for 72 days
  • since june 2025, i've completed 35 GTX workouts
  • keep eating well and moving my body every day

🏚️ rebuild the back patio

  • get the north side of the retaining wall finished
  • measure out how much paver base and dirt and sand you'll need
  • lay down the sand
  • lay down the pavers
  • pick out lights for the patio

perennial projects

🎧 curate the perfect digital garden of music

  • current vibes: the beths, bonny light horseman, piri & tommy, the rezillos, pynch, clairo, and emapea
  • you can see all my favs on this janky, vibe-coded page

📖 audiobooks

  • currently listening to "dungeon crawler carl"
    • finished book one while sick, starting up the second one now.
  • recently was captivated by memoirs narrated by the author
    • like geddy lee, serj tankian, mark hoppus, dave grohl, and deryck whibley
    • i'm up for more suggestions in this genre if you've got 'em

on deck

👽 turn the garage into a 70s ufo/alien themed chill zone

  • clean it out (sigh... again)
  • figure out how to convert the projector screen into something with a motor
  • organize the kid's corner of the garage

This about page was last updated on 2025-09-07