Automating All The Things, making them Go!

Technical specialist using Reinforcement Learning and Machine Teaching to train autonomous systems to do better and work smarter.

Working on the software, electronics and systems integration for robots that serve us(instead of the other way around) at a small robot startup in San Francisco focused on the restaurant service & delivery space. Building the plane while flying it, I do all my own stunts and like to make things go.

Systems Software Engineer for a leader in the cluster computing software industry. As a member of a small team of system software engineers, I worked on the development of the Scyld Clusterware product through multiple product cycles. My main accomplishments were the enhancement of the cluster metrics and monitoring protocols (and ultimately user tools), implementation of a failover functionality on compute nodes, and enhancements to the provisioning system to speed booting of compute nodes even as the cluster scaled from tens to hundreds of compute nodes.I also wrote shell scripts to enhance the Clusterware suite of command-line management tools and provided 3rd/4th level developer support.