fiveable, head of engineering · 2019 - 2024: grew 3k to 1m+ MAU as CTO. fiveable.me
id tech, lead instructor · summer 2019: oversaw 16 students and 2 instructors, taught robotics. idtech.com
self-employed, freelance engineer/tutor · 2019: cut a 2-day manual process down to under 20 seconds.
intuit, software engineer intern · 2018: applied for 2 patents while moving identity onto aws. intuit.com
ibm watson health, cognitive software developer · 2017: diabetes chatbot mvp for a multi-million dollar bid. ibm.com
swopshop, co-founder / cto · 2017 - 2018: won $5,000 placing 3rd of 30+ teams at startup competition.
uw–madison, student · 2014 - 2018: double major in cmpe/cs, minors in math/leadership. undergraduate projects lab, coordinator, 2017 - 2018: a space in the lobby of the computer science building where students hang out, study and team up on side projects. i held office hours 2+ hours a week, often 10+ (i loved it), for course planning, internship advice and side-project help. undergraduate learning center, tutor, 2016 - 2018: free peer tutoring for engineering students, from data structures to linear algebra. i led weekly 3-hour drop-ins with dozens of students at once, plus 1-on-1s. empathy and the socratic method were my best tools, and they've helped me well beyond tutoring. madhacks, sponsor liaison, 2017 - 2018: uw–madison's student-run hackathon, chartered by major league hacking. on the exec board, one other organizer and i raised $29,000 from dozens of sponsors. wisc.edu
reading
if anyone builds it, everyone dies, eliezer yudkowsky & nate soares · read dec 2025: superintelligence kills us by default, not by malice.
lean in, sheryl sandberg · read may 2024: women, ambition, and what holds leadership back.
no rules rules, reed hastings · read may 2024: netflix ran on radical transparency and no controls.
white like me, tim wise · read may 2024: white privilege in america, and the systems that keep it.
men explain things to me, rebecca solnit · read may 2024: the essays that coined mansplaining, on being silenced.
the last lecture, randy pausch · read mar 2024: on chasing childhood dreams in the face of mortality.
evolution of a corporate idealist, christine bader · read feb 2023: pushing social impact from inside a corporation.
let my people go surfing, yvon chouinard · read nov 2022: patagonia put the planet first and still succeeded.
extreme ownership, jocko willink · read apr 2022: navy seal leadership: own everything in your world.
how to win friends & influence people, dale carnegie · read mar 2022: take genuine interest in people, and never criticize.
persist, elizabeth warren · read mar 2022: fighting for change against systemic obstacles.
atomic habits, james clear · read mar 2022: 1% better daily, by stacking habits onto old ones.
shoe dog, phil knight · read nov 2021: nike built from nothing, near-death moments and all.
zero to one, peter thiel · read oct 2021: create something new instead of competing for a market.
thinking backwards, rob van haastrecht · read aug 2021: solve problems by starting from the outcome you want.
escaping the build trap, melissa perri · read aug 2021: shipping features is not the same as solving problems.
a brief history of time, stephen hawking · read aug 2021: cosmology made legible: the universe, time, our place.
outliers, malcolm gladwell · read aug 2021: success is 10,000 hours plus circumstance, not talent.
the subtle art of not giving a f*ck, mark manson · read aug 2021: choose what to care about; the shock value wears thin.
freakonomics, steven d. levitt · read aug 2021: economics explains the strangest human behavior.
thinking, fast and slow, daniel kahneman · read aug 2021: two systems think for you: fast intuition, slow reason.
