About

I work on Tesla’s Cell Manufacturing team, where I lead a team that builds software to enable more efficient manufacturing operations. My team runs the data platform reponsible for factory reporting and financial tracking.

I hope that my current work will pull forward the day when the world has access to cheap, abundant energy storage.

My technical strengths include analytical data systems (particularly Spark and data lakes), data validation and verifiability, terabyte-scale data processing, and data visualization. I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about and building systems to make data actually effective in large organizations.

More recently, I’ve been spending time going deep into functional programming, type systems, distributed systems, and testing theory. I’ve been working on a project to rebuild Spark core from scratch in functional Scala 3.

I previously studied Chemical Engineering at UC Berkeley. I did a bit of research high-capacity, nickel-rich battery cathodes at Berkeley Lab and Tesla.

Outside of work, I’m interested in global development, particularly how to lift out of poverty the 650 million people living on less than $2.15 per day. I’m also broadly interested in AI Alignment.

Away from the keyboard, I enjoy cycling, running, hiking/backpacking, piano, and photography.