About Me

Right Now

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  Repeatable Processing

  Bringing determinism to petabytes of real time data.

2024

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  Launch!

  Launched Cosm, the future of immersive entertainment.

2023

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  Data Leadership

  Grew a multi-disciplinary, cross-functional data team from scratch.

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  Complex Improvement

  Designed complex systems for the next-generation immersive entertainment platform, including proving immutable infrastructure concepts for management & control of legacy on-premise systems.

2022

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  A Platform for All

  Scaled and supported a fully-remote development platform for a multi-language monorepo with dozens of developers.

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  Managable Infrastructure Abstractions

  Designed an infrastructure-as-code framework for granular control of cloud resources.

2021

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  Joined Cosm

  I joined Cosm to build complex systems that power the future of immersive entertainment.

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  Architecting the Future

  Deployed Nativo's next generation data architecture, based on Kafka and Delta Lake.

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  Building Together

  Lead Nativo's technical integration with Databricks, ensuring our data engineering and data science teams had effective infrastructure and a single source of truth.

2020

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  Joined Nativo

  I joined Nativo to architect a next generation data platform for arbitrary scale and massive efficiency.

2018

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  Joined Regent

  Joining Regent, a private equity company, provided an opportunity to work on problems across all kinds of different business - and try to hone in on the fundamental problems that all of them dealt with.

2017

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  Joined FIJI Water

  Based on my previous experience as an intern FIJI's parent company, The Wonderful Company, I was brought on to develop FIJI's first data systems. I knew I would be challenged to bring value to a highly successful business.

2016

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  Graduated College

  I wanted to get a jumpstart on my full time career, and finished college a semester early.

2014

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  Joined BlueLine Grid

  My first step in the world of software engineering. I supported infrastructure and backend development. I configured Jenkins and TestFlight for our iOS app, and was given the fateful job of evaluating Scala and Akka for backend services - and haven't written a line of Java since.

2013

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  Started College

  I chose the Gallatin School at NYU because I wanted to blend my interest in politics with the practical engineering skills I had started developing in high school.

2011

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  First official computer science course

  I had always been interested (especially about hardware), but high school was my first opportunity to take proper computer science. My first language was Java (6).

2010

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  Introduction to engineering

  I started working in my high school theater, and was asked to take responsibility for a brand new performing space. I ended up learning all about the day to day process of being an engineer and I still trace a lot of my working habits to early on the job experience.