about me

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 257 days
- since may 2025, i've done 100 burpees a day for 70 days
- since june 2025, i've completed 32 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.
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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