About Me

I'm a machine learning research engineer and generalist software engineer. My professional work spans machine learning research, API design, model architecture innovcation, game development, kubernetes cluster management, dev tooling development, distributed systems, and more.

In my free time I am a computer graphics enthusiast and independent game developer. I also run a few multiplayer web games that see millions of players per month.

Beyond coding I love skiing, surfing, free diving, and pretty much any outdoor activity.

Work Experience

Jane Street Capital

Research

New York, NY | Jan 2025-current

Machine learning research
NDA

Research Engineer

New York, NY | July 2023-Jan 2025

Machine learning engineering
NDA

Keras

KerasCV

Remote, CA | Jan 2021-May 2023

Original package author, now has with >50 contributors and >1000 Github stars
Personal authorship of the object detection & data augmentation APIs
Designed APIs capable of state of the art classification scores in <100 LOC
Designed APIs capable of state of the art object detection scores in <200 LOC
Reviewed >1k pull requests, triaged ~1k issues
Lots of mentoring

TensorFlow & Keras

Software Engineer

San Diego, CA | June 2020-Jan 2021

Major contributor to code examples and documentation on keras.io
Critical role in API design and ownership
Owner of the low level train_step() override API, other low level APIs
Owner of keras.applications, in the top 5 most widely used APIs in Keras
Orchestrated low level fixes to the TensorFlow core

Google Cloud

Cloud Shell Engineer

San Diego, CA | May 2018-June 2020

Worked on a distributed system managing hundreds of thousands of VMs weekly
Developed distributed load testing frameworks to simulate DDOS attacks
Built and maintained reliable cloud infrastructure services
Lots of work with docker images, kubernetes, and Google Cloud

Other Ventures

bulletz.io

bulletz.io was my first commercial success. To this day it sees millions of monthly players and is a profitable business. As the sole developer, I write the game engine, create all rendering shaders, and handle the server infrastructure to support the player base. No matter what time you log in there will at least be a few people for you to play against.

WizardWars.online

An online multiplayer MOBA focused on teamwork and spell-casting. Despite launching with a few publishers the game was ultimately not a hit. It was however a great learning experience.