Engineer who likes to be bad at a wide array of different topics
I'm currently working on:
- Trying to get better at woodworking with hand tools. Failing at dovetails. Building cribbage boards.
- Trying to automate my weekly Fooda order
- Learning Rust and embedded programming (micro:bit, Raspberry Pi Pico, ESP32)
- Autonomous rover with CV (using the IMX500)
- Trying to fix a Bulova Accutron Spaceview
- Working at Gradial building AI Agents for marketing ops. RE for the New Page problem (how can an AI agent reliably construct ~90% complete webpages of arbitrary complexity from a wide array of source types into a diverse set of customer environements, each with their own quirks and limitations) + do lots of work related to Sitecore integration, design system data representation, and agent framework.
Reading List:
- Aladdin's Lamp by John Freely (book on the flow of math and science from Greece -> Arabic peninsula -> North Africa -> Iberian Peninsula -> Italy during the Renaissance, how these translations saved knowledge that was lost during the dark ages)
- Kelly: More Than My Share of it All by Kelly Johnson (auto/bio)
- Despair by Vladimir Nabokov
My general background:
- BA in Computer Science from Middlebury College, with minors in Philosophy and German
- Studied international humanitarian law, ethics, and machine learning in the German language at the University of Potsdam
- Projects in cryptography and quantum computing. Built an Enigma machine emulator. Learned Q#, Microsoft's quantum computing language and implemented some algos to run in Azure Quantum
- Worked for my college's General Counsel in projects relating to Free Speech, Demonstrations, and responses to the SFFA v. Harvard, SFFA v. UNC Supreme Court rulings
- Bravely led and wrote for the Local Noodle, Middlebury's only news source (satire publication)
- Briefly worked on software for sawmills across the country (knot identification in cants to optimize profitability of cuts)
- Build watches in my free time; generally limited to assembly + modding. Tried to build an NH38 movement from parts once and it drove me insane and worked for 2 days. Very poor ROI
Seattle, WA
Engineer at Gradial