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Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Guiding the development of the technology backbone that supports Bluestone Health's unique care model at scale.Visit our website to learn more: https://bluestonehealth.com

Doing a mix of fractional engineering leadership and in-house product incubation.https://cenvalabs.com

Scratching my writing itch by writing technical content like blog posts, thought leadership pieces, and case studies, primarily for engineering audiences.I work with a mix enterprise scale companies and top-tier startups, like Grammarly, Tecton, Cortex, Context.ai, and others.

Fully Remote, Oo

I went to Kona at its seed raise, as a product manager / full-stack engineering hybrid, and employee #8. The goal was to help remote teams build a culture of trust and connectedness. I did a bit of everything:- Strategic & tactical product work directly with our founders (and sales, marketing, engineering, design)- Customer discovery and interviews, running product experiments- Full stack engineering work (architecture design, implementation, and iteration) using AWS, our python backend, and a react frontend

Mountain View, Ca, Us

As an APM, and later, PM, at Google, I had some impact I was proud of on a few teams:As product lead for C+E studio, I helped enable novel expressive content formats & display technologies across Google. I also drove consumer and technical infrastructure projects with a team of 25+, which enabled XX% increased engagement & XXX% increased share rates on content across Google surfaces.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Mountain View, Ca, Us

PM lead for Switch Access, part of the Android Accessibility Suite, which lets people with motor and/or speech impairments interact with the entirety of their Android device using only switches.

San Jose, Ca, Us

After winding down my startup, selling our IP, and while doing an MS in CS, I had a 3.5 month internship at Adobe, where I:• Created a python-based CV model evaluation pipeline working directly with Adobe Research, increasing model evaluation throughput by 3x• Worked directly with product and design to run discovery interviews and define a feature end to end• Implemented production grade, on device, deep learning CV model in Premiere Pro to enable automatic scene edit detection in real time, providing a novel multithreaded implementation that improved inference speed by 2x

St Louis, Missouri, Us

I was the technical co-founder for a venture backed cleantech startup right after undergrad - it failed, but we learned a lot and hit some impressive milestones:• Raised a $XXXk+ pre-seed, and were part of the Make in LA hardware-focused accelerator • I hired and managed a team of 3 engineers• I wrote the full-stack software (embedded C/C++ to server side python) for our MVPs• My co-founder and I sourced and ran 150+ customer discovery interviews

St. Louis, Mo, Us

I interned at an electric subcontractor, helped design building electrical systems, and learned a lot about how new construction is developed.

St. Louis, Mo, Us

Worked as a tutor while in school, doing one on one or small group tutoring for homework help, test preparation, etc.

Culver City, California, Us

Engineering intern at a molecular research company, I helped design a system for delivering cargo into live cells using pulsed laser arrays.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Us

Research assistant in a molecular research lab, I worked on methods for cloning and cataloging alpaca antibodies, which showed uniquely promising properties in treatment of human disease.

Master Of Science (M.S.), Computer Science

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Electrical Engineering

High School Diploma