About Me

[–] Me on a rooftop in Milan. Photo by my brother Jeremy.

[–] Me, my girlfriend, and our two mini dachshunds, Ernie and Millie.

I’m a software engineer living in Boulder, Colorado, not far from my hometown of Longmont, Colorado.

My dad sparked my interest in computers early on. At 11 or 12 I found and read an excellent introductory Java textbook At one point, I printed all ~800 pages out. No binding or anything, just a big stack of paper. Simpler times…. I was immediately hooked, but quickly became interested in developing graphical interfaces for my programs. Building GUIs in Java proved tiresome, so I started to poke around with web programming… and well, I haven’t stopped since.

In high school, I was deeply involved in the FIRST Robotics Competition with the incredible Team 1619 Up-A-Creek Robotics. The relationships I developed with mentors on the team grew into a sequence of professional opportunities. First, I interned for Workday on the team from freshly acquired Gridcraft Workday’s stock price has tripled since this acquisition., a startup co-founded by Up-A-Creek mentor Terry Olkin. Two years later, Terry co-founded Left Hand Robotics, aiming to build autonomous robots for outdoor labor-intensive tasks. I worked for Left Hand Robotics on-and-off starting a handful of months after its conception up to its acquisition by The Toro Company.

During this time, I was a student at Northwestern University, studying Computer Science in the Engineering school. When the COVID pandemic hit, I withdrew

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