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 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
  • plan on a fun trip to milwaukee
  • lots of rupaul's drag race (UK season 7)

my incredible kiddos

  • deep into fall activities
  • minecraft and roblox for days
  • k-pop demon hunters, gravity falls, and halloween movies
  • song and dance performances around the house
  • getting my blue belt in kung fu with my daughter
  • watching my son ace his part as a gingerbread man in the nutcracker
  • watching my daughter light up the stage during onstage

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
    • create visual flow chart of question routine

💪 get buff as hell

  • get over this dumb strep throat bug i've had since the friday of labor day
  • once that's done:
    • since december 2024, i've done 100 situps a day for 279 days
    • since may 2025, i've done 100 burpees a day for 78 days
    • since june 2025, i've completed 44 GTX workouts
    • keep eating well and moving my body every day

🏚️ rebuild the back patio

  • measure out how much paver base and dirt and sand you'll need
  • drainage pipe setup (order T connector, dig ditch, lay gravel, place pipe, lay gravel on top)
  • lay down the paver base for pavers
  • 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: pynch, the beths, bonny light horseman, the cords, the rezillos, the car is on fire, cut copy, blink 182, and emapea
  • you can see all my favs on this janky, vibe-coded page

📖 get back into reading

  • currently reading/listening to "dungeon crawler carl" (halfway through book V: the butcher's masquerade)
  • went to barnes and noble, picked up some physical books!
  • 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 2025-10-05