about me
tl;dr:
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
amazing daughter
- watching her play in softball games and soccer matches
- re-watching gravity falls
- bike rides to JJs
amazing son
- minecraft and roblox 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 to extract specific data from unstructured reports
- 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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💪 git fit as hell
- since december 2024, i've done 100 situps a day for 207 days
- since may 2025, i've done 100 burpees a day for 50 days
- figure out 4 meals i can make that are filled with protein and veggies
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👽 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
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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
- geddy lee (in progress)
- quincy jones
serj tankianmark hoppusdave grohlderyck whibley- (send me more suggestions in this genre please)
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🏚️ rebuild the back patio
- finish demoing the existing back patio
- schedule bagster pickups
- pick out patio pavers
- budget out cost of fill and pavers based on estimated size of patio
This about page was last updated on 2025-07-06