about me

Tim straddling on a stool with a goofy facial expression

tl;dr:

lifelong nerd

  • 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, and nostalgic 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
  • playing catch and going on runs
  • bike rides to JJs

amazing son

  • minecraft 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
  • design peg board holders for my tools and print them with my 3d printer
  • fine tune a large language model
  • 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

  • 💪 do 100 situps and 100 burpees every single day (no exceptions)
    • i've done 100 situps a day for 117 days in a row (that's 11700 total)
    • i've done 100 burpees a day for 26 days in a row (that's 2600 total)
  • 👽 turn the garage into a 70s ufo/alien themed chill zone
    • get rid of all this stuff before the end of the school year
    • clean out the pile of junk in the northeast corner
    • figure out how to convert the projector screen into something with a motor
    • finish 3d printing the light up alien head (and order the LEDs)
    • clean off all the storage shelves on the north wall
    • clean the work bench off in the garage
  • 🎧 curate the perfect digital garden of music
  • 🎸 read more musician memoirs
    • dave grohl (in progress)
    • quincy jones
    • serj tankian
    • mark hoppus
    • (send me more suggestions in this genre please)
  • 🏚️ rebuild the back patio
    • pick out patio pavers
    • budget out cost of fill and pavers based on estimated size of patio

This about page was last updated on 2025-06-01