About

Who I am

Software engineer, currently between SF and SoCal. I’ve built and shipped at Tesla, Labelbox, First Round Capital, and UW. These days I build agents and the infrastructure they run on, from bare metal to browser — currently 115, and a stealth project, Lumbridge.

Philosophy

Own the whole stack

From DNS to the database, I run what I build on. Abstractions leak — and the bugs that matter live in what's underneath. So I learn it.

Build the machine, not the output

The win isn't doing the work — it's building the thing that does the work. I'd rather spend a day on a system that ships forever than an hour on a task I'll just repeat.

Production is the only proof

Nothing is real until it's live. Ship early, then let real users — and real markets — tell you what's true. A demo proves nothing.

Build the right thing

Speed is wasted aimed at the wrong target. Engineering tells you how to build it; taste and judgment tell you whether you should. I optimize for both.

Timeline

2026

AI Engineer World's Fair — PodMan

2nd place out of 95+ teams at the AI Engineer World's Fair Hackathon, plus the LiveKit and DigitalOcean track awards. Built PodMan — an ambient voice-AI pair-programmer that watches a team's shared room and flags duplicate work and merge collisions before they cost anyone time. Shipped to production over a weekend.

AgentsVoice AILiveKitHackathon

2026

Lumbridge

Stealth. An autonomous software factory — agents that take software from idea to production, end to end.

StealthAgentsAutonomous Systems

2025

115

Systematic strategies and the infrastructure that runs them, built and operated end to end.

PythonDistributed SystemsInfrastructure

2023

UW

Software engineer building tools for retail traders. Real-time data pipelines, option flow analytics, and systems that handle millions of events per day. Based in Irvine, CA.

PythonPostgreSQLRedisData Pipelines

2022

First Round Capital

Startup Solutions Engineer — helped portfolio companies ship faster. Internal tooling, automation, and the infrastructure glue that keeps early-stage teams moving.

InfrastructureDevOpsAutomation

2019

Labelbox

Solutions Engineer at the data labeling platform. Built integrations, solved customer problems, and learned that good software starts with understanding the user.

PythonAPIsEnterprise

2016

UC Davis

Computer Science & Managerial Economics. The mix of engineering and business thinking shaped how I approach problems — build the right thing, not just build things right.

CSEconomicsSystems Thinking

2012

Tesla

Business Development in Hawthorne. Learned how hardware and software come together at scale. Watched a startup become the most important car company in the world.

HardwareSalesScale

2010

VESC

Engineering intern at an electric skateboard startup. Worked on open-source motor controllers (VESC). Company got acquired by Boosted Boards in 2012.

EmbeddedOpen SourceHardware