Work
Founder at Focal
- Built an agentic in-browser video editor that served 1M+ users.
- Ran production infrastructure and a distributed inference fleet of hundreds of GPUs.
- Did YC, raised $2M, and reached $500k annualized run rate.
Creator of Quantized.co
- Built a spaced-repetition platform and paid marketplace used for 4.3M reviews and 16,000 study hours.
VLSI Intern at NVIDIA
- Worked on an applied research team doing machine learning for chip design.
- Built a model to predict final chip area without expensive industry tooling.
ZKP Eng for the Ethereum Foundation
- Made Dark Forest, a zero-knowledge proof based space game, with four friends.
- Wrote the zk circuits which computed provable noise functions, hashes, comparisons, and distances, all inside a prime field, with only addition and multiplication.
- Vitalik tweeted that the game was really fun.
- "[DF] set a precedent for real-time strategy gaming on the blockchain." (Cointelegraph)
Platform Intern at Cogo Labs
- Added features to concurrent systems in Go and Python.
Creator of FastCitations
- Built a consumer citation tool that turned batches of URLs into formatted bibliographies.
Engineering Intern at Oneiro
- Created their CI/CD pipeline (AWS S3, ECR, ECS, Lambda, etc).
Engineering Intern at Achievement Network
- Added features and fixed bugs for backend systems in Go.
Projects
Perhaps you want to read about the time I patched
a Linux kernel while dumping the .sos from an Android game,
a 3-inch quadcopter I made from the circuit boards up, or
a poker agent trained via RL to play aggressively in anonymous
online poker rooms? See my full list of projects.