Career + CV

Currently

Antler (Early-Stage VC; Austin, TX)

Venture Partner
          Working with Antler to help discover exceptional founders + startups, make investment decisions, advise + support portfolio companies and ensure the Antler Residency program is one of the best places for founders to develop their companies 

Visiting Expert
          Providing engineering, product, business and strategic expertise to early-stage founders + teams within the Antler VC Residency

Angel Investing + Advising

Angel investing, advising, consulting & coaching with technology startups. Typically focused on AI, Infrastructure, FinTech & Marketplaces

Angel Investor & Advisor
Advisor

Solo Projects

Investment portfolio analysis software (Github)
          I’ve managed my own investment portfolio for 15+ years. To assist me with asset, sector, and portfolio-level insights – across past, current, and hypothetical timelines – I’m building specialized software for financial analysis, tooling, and visualizations

Tinkering with LLM’s
          Working with generative AI and LLM’s, in various ways, for better understanding and management

Previously

Addition Wealth

Vice-President, Head of Engineering
          2023

Consultant (AI Strategy)
          2023

Carta

Vice-President, Engineering – Platform Infrastructure
          2021 – 2023

Uber Technologies

Strategic Advisor to Vice-President, Engineering – Infrastructure
          2018 – 2020

Machine Learning + Software Engineer, Capacity Engineering – Infrastructure
          2016 – 2018

Founding SRE Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering – Infrastructure
          2014 – 2016

Facebook (Meta)

Production Engineer – News Feed, Ads, Graph Affinity
          2011 – 2014

Education

University of Southern California  – B.S. Computer Science
          Los Angeles

Stuyvesant HS
          New York City

Courses

Generative AI with Large Language Models
          In Progress

Improving Deep Neural Networks:
Hyperparameter Tuning, Regularization and Optimization

          2023

Neural Networks + Deep Learning
          2023

Machine Learning
          2017

Statistical Learning
          2014