About

I currently work on the Data Platform team at xAI and X, where I lead development of the batch processing platform. We power data preparation for Grok pretraining and posttraining, product data analysis, and much more. On the X side, my team runs the infra for X ads, recommendation systems, and product analytics.

Before xAI, I worked on Tesla’s Cell Manufacturing team, where I led a team that built software to enable more efficient manufacturing operations. My team ran the data platform reponsible for factory reporting and financial tracking.

My technical strengths include distributed data processing (Spark and Ray), analytical data systems (data lakes, Iceberg, ClickHouse), and data validation and verifiability.

I studied Chemical Engineering at UC Berkeley. While there, I research high-capacity, nickel-rich battery cathodes at Berkeley Lab and Tesla.

Outside of work, I’ve been spending time on functional programming, type systems, testing theory, and even a bit of formal methods (particularly Lean). I’ve been working on a project to rebuild Spark core from scratch in functional Scala 3.