I take complex, frontier technology and make it accessible to everyone.
Also building thealpineguide.com, a personalized hiking guide for the PNW.
Founding Engineer Acquired by Farcaster, then Neynar
- Owned backend, frontend, SDK, and data pipeline at our 4-person startup
- System deployed tens of thousands of tokens daily, serving millions of hits/day
- Designed SDK for developers and LLMs, focusing on ease of use; an early AI-native API
- Designed and shipped LLM agent with tool-use and a custom multi-model router to handle user queries
- Built Rust library for fast and efficient deterministic onchain address generation
- Ran weekly developer office hours and integrated direct feedback into the product
- Mentored team members on system design and shipping under acquisition pressure; authored the internal doc that drove our acquisition
- Five portfolio companies launched via Clanker raised venture funding in the first year
Warbler Labs ’22 – ’25
Staff Engineer
- Lab behind Goldfinch (onchain real-world asset platform) and Heron Finance (private market investment platform)
- Tech lead on a team of 5; drove technical architecture for backend and smart contracts
- Led engineering of $30M smart contract system in Solidity, generating 10%+ yield
- Built the first production use of account-abstracted crypto wallets, holding over $30M
- Built linear programming rebalancing engine optimizing portfolios across thousands of performing assets
- Mentored three engineers to promotion (one to Senior, two to Staff)
Engineer → Senior → Staff
- Architected and led cross-functional team of 10 building the customer service chatbot
- Chatbot launched two months before COVID and handled 100x surge when all US reservations were canceled
- Built multilingual contact flow and CMS knowledge base for customer support
- Co-invented NLP sentiment analysis system (US Patent)
- Built taxonomy system to optimize CX agent workflows
- Mentored junior engineers across multiple teams
- Started the Seattle office internship program
Cat Facts ’11 – ’17
Founder Sold
- The internet-famous Cat Facts texting service, ranked #1 on Google for "cat facts"
- Tens of thousands of customers and millions of impressions annually; 30% viral rate
- Ran marketing campaigns across Facebook, Reddit, and Twitter, analyzing post effectiveness
- Automated customer interactions with a custom NLP system before LLMs existed
Carnegie Mellon ’11 – ’15
Computer Science
iOS Developer ’09 – ’13
Founder
- Puzzle games with 100k+ downloads
- Top app got 30k downloads, primarily in China
Microsoft summer ’14
Intern
Microsoft summer ’13
Intern
Motion Math summer ’12
Intern
Articles & Patents
Skills & Technologies
- Leadership
- Technical Architecture, System Design, Cross-Functional Leadership, Mentorship, Developer Advocacy
- AI & ML
- LLM Integration, Multi-Agent Systems, NLP, Conversational AI, AI-Native SDK Design
- Backend & Infra
- Node.js, Bun, Distributed Systems, Data Pipelines
- Languages
- TypeScript, Rust, Solidity, Python, Ruby, Java
- Frontend
- React, Next.js, Astro
- Blockchain
- Smart Contracts, DeFi, Multi-Chain Indexing, Token Systems