about me

me, in a nutshell
- 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, being in bed by 10p, 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
my incredible kiddos
- watching them play in soccer matches
- minecraft and roblox for days
- re-watching gravity falls
- bike rides to JJs
- song and dance performances around the house
- doing front flips and underwater handstands in the pool
current 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
- analyze the data from the first big run of kneescraper to figure out which questions the locally-running LLM did well in answering
💪 get buff as hell
- since december 2024, i've done 100 situps a day for 220 days
- since may 2025, i've done 100 burpees a day for 55 days
- since june 2025, i've completed 14 GTX workouts
- figure out how to fit more protein and veggies into my diet
🏚️ rebuild the back patio
determine andorder materials (fill, pavers, and retaining wall blocks)- begin digging trench for retaining wall
finish demoing the existing back patio
🎧 curate the perfect digital garden of music
- you can see my favs on this janky, vibe-coded page
🎸 read more musician memoirs
- geddy lee (in progress)
- quincy jones
serj tankianmark hoppusdave grohlderyck whibley- (send me more suggestions in this genre please)
👽 turn the garage into a 70s ufo/alien themed chill zone
- get rid of all this stuff as soon as possible
- 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 2025-07-21