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Oakland, CA, US

Custom software development and consulting for robotics and simulation.

San Francisco, CA, US

As a founding team member and principal software engineer at Foxglove Technologies, I leveraged my expertise in robotics and 3D rendering to create powerful and accessible visualization tools for the robotics industry. I rewrote the 3D rendering engine and implemented support for robotics file formats and networking protocols including ROS, ROS 2.

Hayward, CA, US

Continuing with my passion to turn theoretical research into practical applications, Verdant aims to reduce chemical applications in row crop and orchard farming by one magnitude to increase the scalability of organic farming while improving quality and yield across a variety of crops. As a member of the leadership team and an early stage engineer, I owned.

San Francisco, California, US

Defining strategy and leading technical direction for autonomous vehicle simulation. Hired and managed a sub-department of 40+ engineers across planning simulation, controls simulation, simulation artificial intelligence, performance testing, and hardware-in-the-loop. Developed a performance testing datacenter connected to continuous integration that runs.

San Francisco, California, US

Prototyped new IP engagements and technology experiments for new hardware and new social platforms for the executive team. Converted previous improvements to Dawn of Titans at NaturalMotion into shared best practices across the game portfolio. Developed a per-user lifetime value prediction model that was accurate within 25% of avg. lifetime spend after.

London, London, GB

Went to London to ship a AAA mobile game several years behind schedule. Developed a technology plan including protocol and backend service upgrades to mitigate cheating and malicious behavior, a ground-up rewrite of the user interface to update the game to modern visual standards and address the primary source of performance issues, and many tactical fixes.

San Francisco, California, US

Led the data team and central data platform development at Earnest. Oversaw data engineering, data science, analytics, and reporting & compliance. Grew data from three to 20+ managers and ICs to deliver a common real-time data pipeline, data warehousing, the data science experimentation platform, pricing models, daily revenue forecasting, and core loan.

Berkeley, CA, US

Chief technology officer for Will Wright's next big thing. Overseeing engineering, operations, and analytics. Interim head of product from February 2014 - May 2015.

Los Angeles, CA, US

Head of technology and consumer-facing product at MOX. Developed the technology to drive an online television station focused around electronic music and entertainment, delivering a mixture of programmed and live content 24/7 to web and mobile audiences.

Co-founded and sold a consumer web startup that turned the scattered world of online music videos into curated 24x7 channels.Speaking Events"Introducing Cull TV" NodeJam Startup Competition @ NodeSummit. San Francisco, CA. January 2012.

Santa Clara, California, US

Part of the virtual worlds infrastructure research group in Intel Labs, publishing findings in large heterogeneous simulation platforms.Speaking Events“Application of Many-Core Architecture to Virtual World Workloads” Emerging Applications and Many-Core Architecture @ International Symposium on Computer Architecture. Saint-Malo, France. June, 2010.“Cable.

Founded and led development on the open source library for connecting to the Second Life platform. One of the largest open source C# projects at the time, overseeing 120K lines of code managed by a distributed team of 40 volunteer engineers.Speaking Events“Open Source Track” Second Life Community Convention. Chicago, IL. August 2007.

Wrote multiplayer games and scripted environments for Sony Home, a PlayStation3 gaming platform. Authored technical specifications, source code documentation, handled client/engineer relations, and built the art and engineering asset pipeline.

Helping brands, musicians, and digital marketing agencies create virtual experiences using the open source Second Life networking library I led development on.

Developed the Espra peer-to-peer system based on top of Freenet.Speaking Events“Product Unveiling: Espra” The O'Reilly Peer-to-Peer Conference. San Francisco, CA. February 2001.