Software Engineer & Founder
I'm drawn to hard problems that improve lives. Finding structure in ambiguity, experimenting, and iterating rapidly are my love languages.
Previously worked in Search, Data Infrastructure, and Networking at Google. Currently building Twined at the intersection of AI and human communication.
I'm a software engineer who's spent most of my career in backend systems & frameworks. Over the last year and a half, I've expanded into ML engineering. My wife, Hayley, my dogs, and I call the San Francisco Bay Area home.
My path here wasn't smooth. Hurricane Katrina destroyed my childhood home and possessions, forcing my family to relocate from New Orleans to Nashville. I developed a strong empathy for outliers and learned to grow amidst adversity. At 15, I was accepted to Lipscomb University. I dual-enrolled through high school, then went on to study Computer Science at Texas A&M. Google recruited me out of school, and I spent nearly six years building frameworks for the Search Results Page, distributed systems for Health Data, and testing infrastructure for gRPC.
Now I'm building something of my own: Twined, multiplayer AI messaging. I'm researching context, memory and disentanglement in group dialog.
Twined
Founded Twined Inc. and re-designed messaging from the ground up. Architected and implemented iOS application, backend services, and ML infrastructure. Trained task-specific models with custom architectures. Started pitching to VCs and accelerators. Currently preparing for a public launch.
Built frameworks powering the Search Results Page, improving performance and developer productivity. Experimented on all Search traffic. Developed distributed systems for Health Data Pipeline orchestration. Designed infrastructure with custom Kubernetes controllers to test gRPC on Google Cloud.
Texas Instruments
Built monitoring software for job orchestration systems.
IBM
Integrated de-identification and pseudo-anonymization for a big data pipeline.
Faithlife
Worked on RefTagger (embedded Bible references across the web) and backend services.
Lipscomb University
Taught programming and robotics to children.