I work on technology that empowers people and communities, simplifying complex systems so anyone can use them.

Neynar ’26 – now
Staff Engineer
  • Expanding Clanker to new blockchains and evolving products for emerging US legal frameworks
  • Researching the intersection of AI, social, and crypto toward a novel form of social contract
Farcaster ’25 – ’26
Staff Engineer Acquired by Neynar
  • Launched funding mechanisms that helped small teams raise capital outside traditional VC
Clanker ’25 – ’26
Founding Engineer Acquired by Farcaster
  • Owned backend, frontend, SDK, and data pipeline at a 4-person startup
  • Built and owned the bot personality using early LLM tool-use and a custom LLM-router for accuracy
  • Rust system for deterministic onchain address generation
  • Backend deploying tens of thousands of tokens daily; serving millions of hits/day
  • Designed SDK for developers and LLMs — an early AI-native API
  • Ran weekly developer office hours; integrated direct feedback into the product
  • Three portfolio companies secured venture funding
  • Acquired by Farcaster, then by Neynar — continued as core engineer through both transitions
Goldfinch ’22 – ’25
Staff Engineer
  • 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
  • Open lending protocol expanding financial access to underserved borrowers globally
  • LP solver optimizing portfolios across thousands of performing assets
Airbnb ’16 – ’21
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
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
Microsoft ’15 – ’16
Software Engineer
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

Languages
TypeScript, Rust, Solidity, Python, Ruby, Java
Frontend
React, Next.js, Astro
Backend & Infra
Node.js, Bun, Distributed Systems, Data Pipelines, System Design
AI & ML
LLM Integration, NLP, Conversational AI, AI-Native SDK Design
Blockchain
Smart Contracts, DeFi, Multi-Chain Indexing, Token Systems
Leadership
Technical Architecture, Cross-Functional Leadership, Mentorship, Developer Advocacy