in the spirit of nownownow.com, here's what i'm up to these days. i'll try my best to keep this up to date over time!
- currently living in vancouver but grew up in kingston
- i work on search at turbopuffer. joined in early 2024 as the second engineering hire. i mostly work on full-text search, but i've touched most parts of the database
- on the side, i build and release lovely software. these projects are typically non-commercial, and meant for personal use. software built by humans, for humans!
- when i'm not programming, i read (mostly science fiction), play magic: the gathering, go to the gym occasionally, and drink an unhealthy amount of coffee
past lives
- started a company with my roommate, xander. built personal virtual assistants that you could talk with via imessage, a vector database from scratch in zig, and numerous experiments with semantic search
- spent a month living in both prague and frankfurt. spent almost two months living in korea (seoul). definitely want to do more of these month-long stints abroad; they're the best way to properly experience a new place
- studied computer engineering at the university of waterloo. graduated with honors; spent time over co-op at:
- kuna, building on-device object detection models and realtime video streaming infrastructure
- amd, working on fidelityfx downsampling and background-noise suppression
- in high school, interned with professor. farhana zulkernine and dr. haruna isah at the queen's university big-data analytics and management lab. published research on search query expansion at COMPSAC 2019
- first got into programming through minecraft. wrote server-side java plugins for servers, and played a lot of hardcore factions