About
I believe in talking to users, rapid iteration, and building software that solves real problems.
I live in Richmond with my daughter Josie. Outside of tech, I'm into Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (purple belt), portrait photography, and reading my way through Cormac McCarthy's collection.
Background
- Wells Fargo, 2026 to now. AI strategy and architecture.
- Monument Labs, 2024 to 2026. Founder. A small studio that spent two years shipping AI products for real workflows.
- Meta, 2018 to 2024. Senior Data Scientist. Reality Labs Trust, Business Integrity, FAIR Machine Translation, Community Integrity Counter-Terrorism, Marketplace Feed Performance.
- Columbia University, 2016 to 2018. Full Stack Machine Learning Engineer, Laboratory for Intergroup Relations and the Social Mind. Developed algorithms to identify unique linguistic traits in marginalized groups and built full-stack web applications.
- Columbia University, 2014 to 2018. B.A., Computer Science and Statistics, Mandarin Chinese.
- United States Marine Corps, 2009 to 2014. Sergeant. 2nd Assault Amphibian Battalion and Combat Logistics Regiment 37, Okinawa, Japan.
Talks and press
- Vibe Coding Workshop, University of Richmond, October 2025.
- Vibe Coding Your MVP, Lighthouse Network Founder Summit, September 2025.
- Vibe Coding: Building Full Products Without Looking at Code, CarMax Richmond, June 2024.
- Vibe Coding Jam, University of Richmond Innovation Studio.
- The R Prize, AI Ready RVA. Video, 2026.
- Virginia Business, "Incubators help entrepreneurs determine viability", June 2025.
Reading
- Finite and Infinite Games, James Carse
- Burn-In, P.W. Singer and August Cole
- Children of Time, Adrian Tchaikovsky