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 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 and order 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

🎸 read more musician memoirs

  • geddy lee (in progress)
  • quincy jones
  • serj tankian
  • mark hoppus
  • dave grohl
  • deryck whibley
  • (send me more suggestions in this genre please)

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

This about page was last updated on 2025-07-21