timeline

Résumé

2024–now

Co-founder, Executive Software Lead / Board Member

DigiChem · New York

Co-founded a chemical synthesis startup with two chemists
Raised a seed round with MVP
Lead and mentored a team of three engineers building a custom ERP/MRP for novel chemical synthesis and optimization from zero to one, along with a handful of domain-oriented pivots
Product powered by LLM-powered durable workflows

Aug 2024 – present

TypeScript React Router Prisma DBOS Postgres Railway AWS GitHub Actions Graphite

2017–2023

Software Engineer

Standard Bots · New York / hybrid

First dedicated software engineer; left a post-Series A company of ten-plus engineers and twenty employees
Built and maintained the robotics engine — kinematics, dynamics, control systems, motion planning, vision
Built the platform that runs the robots: a React remote control, a real-time server, WebRTC, ThreeJS, WebAssembly

Sep 2017 – Mar 2023

C++TypeScript Rust React Linux WebRTC Firebase Docker ROS

2015–2016

Software Engineer / Lead Engineer

A Plus · New York

Joined a team of 6
As the company dwindled, became lead and only engineer, running the entire site's engineering

Jun 2015 – Dec 2016

Ruby JavaScript Ruby on Rails React AWS

2014

Software Engineering Intern

Wolverine Trading · Chicago

Fun summer during which I learned how to drink
Good environment but low-impact and not intellectually stimulating
While I already knew a good amount about finance, they did have us take an options trading course in which I learned a lot

Summer 2014

2012

Software Engineering Intern

Royal Caribbean

Kinda regret this one. Cruises are terrible for the environment!

Summer 2012

2009

Research Intern

Jackson Memorial Hospital

Kinda regret this one too. A lotta mice died, fortunately none directly by my hand.

Summer 2009

2011–2014

Washington University in St. Louis

BS, Computer Science

Minor in Design.

Skills

Software DesignRoboticsC++TypeScript Rust

patches

I technically made these contributions to these projects.
Almost all meaningless, but, hey, I've been interested in cool stuff for a long time!

2019

actix/actix — Add futures::{future, Stream} to actix::prelude::*

2019

actix/actix — Add implementations for Message for Arc and Box

2018

rust-lang/rust — Amend option.take examples

2018

yewstack/yew — Add mount points

2018

nlohmann/json — Better error 305

2018

amethyst/amethyst — Put in a better example for Component in the book

2018

Vincit/objection.js — Overview for API#models and tabbed-example component

2017

yewstack/yew — Add many console methods

2017

serverless/serverless — Add missing apostrophe

2016

yarnpkg/yarn — Meaningful error message on malformed registry response