The whole thing, in three parts. Work, way-of-thinking, and the stuff that happens when I close the laptop. Based in Menlo Park, CU alum, currently at Meta.
I'm a software engineer based in the Bay Area, currently at Meta. Before that, Palantir, Oracle, and Razorpay. I'm a CU Boulder alum.
What drives me is the intersection of complex systems: scalable distributed systems, concurrency and multithreading, ML architectures. I love getting into the weeds of how things work, from CUDA to database internals to system-design patterns.
Beyond code, I'm fascinated by economics and international relations. I spend a lot of time thinking about monetary policy, market dynamics, and how technology is reshaping capitalism. I think understanding those systems makes me a better engineer.
I don't settle for surface-level explanations. I dig until I truly understand the why and how, whether it's an algorithm, an economic policy, or a system architecture. I build from first principles, not memorization.
I connect dots across disciplines. Economics informs my tech decisions. Systems thinking applies everywhere: distributed databases, international markets, human psychology.
When I'm not at my keyboard I'm probably on a chessboard, on a padel court, or an episode deep into an anime. I'm always learning: neuroscience, psychology, the latest paper on attention mechanisms. I'm drawn to understanding how complex systems actually work under the hood.
This site is where I share what I'm learning, building, and thinking about. Welcome along for the ride.