about me

Tim straddling on a stool with a goofy facial expression

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

  • 💪 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
  • 👽 turn the garage into a 70s ufo/alien themed chill zone
  • 🎧 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)
  • 🏚️ 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