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, uncle iroh from "avatar: the last airbender", and elle mcgibbons from "dungeon crawler carl"

karaoke, anytime, anywhere
seeing musicals and pop punk shows irl
getting as much autumn in as possible
finishing 'the haunting of hill house'
lots of rupaul's drag race (UK season 7)
working on perfecting our "signatures"
- cocktails: need to decide on something with gin, a classic wisconsin old fashioned, a s'mores chocolate brandy drink, and chocolate martinis
- appetizers: large pretzel with good cheese sauce, spring rolls
- meals: pork schnitzel with spätzle, rice bowls with chipotle-inspired mix-ins
- desserts: crème brûlée, molten chocolate lava cake

minecraft and roblox for days
dancing with the stars, k-pop demon hunters, gravity falls, and the live action reboot of vampirina
song and dance performances around the house
getting my blue belt in kung fu with my daughter
walking home from school with my son
watching my son ace his part as a gingerbread man in the nutcracker
watching my daughter light up the stage during onstage

train a proprietary classification model to categorize criminal offenses
fine tune a large language model to extract specific data from unstructured surgical reports
- ~~create visual flow chart of question routine~~
- create more comprehensive flow chart with the actual questions used

current vibes: pynch, the beths, bonny light horseman, the cords, the rezillos, mumford & sons, the car is on fire, blink 182, the suicide machines, and emapea
you can see all my favs on this janky, vibe-coded page that reads directly from my plex library

currently reading/listening to "dungeon crawler carl"
- i'm close to halfway done with 'this inevitable ruin'
- check out my cool "carl" halloween costume.
went to barnes and noble and picked up some physical books! i'll get to those after 'this inevitable ruin' and then probably pick the first book up again.

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
create a stage that folds down. when upright, it holds all my tools and whatnot.

still in the dreaming phase here, but i keep thinking about this mockup of a physical winamp player and i want that to exist

This about page was last updated on 2025-11-02