I've spent the last few years exploring different corners of technology and design. Most of the projects here started with something I was curious about and ended with me building it.
About
Over the years I've picked up a lot of different interests.
Somewhere along the way that turned into design work, analytics, AI projects, products, and eventually engineering.
Today I'm in platform engineering at Trellix, learning how ideas become systems and how systems operate at scale.
Outside of work, I build side projects, log films on Letterboxd, read broadly, and collect questions that are interesting enough to spend time on.
Work
01
What sparked it
Saving content is easy. Finding it again is not. Useful discoveries: workouts, recipes, places, ideas, vanish into folders of thumbnails you can't search by meaning.
Built hookd as a memory-first bookmarking tool. Every save includes a hook: why it mattered to you. Search by context and intent, not by title or username.
02
What sparked it
The more I used voice assistants, the more I noticed how quickly they forgot who they were talking to. Ask about your fitness goal mid-recipe and it resets. There's no memory, no continuity, no you.
Layered a modern LLM backend onto Alexa's hands-free interface. Adapts to each user's actual goals (cooking, fitness, learning) and carries session memory forward across conversations.
03
What sparked it
Turning photos into a video that actually feels right takes hours of manual editing. Most tools pick transitions blindly. They don't listen to the music.
Built RecapGen to sync photos to music intelligently. Beat detection drives the cuts, so the video breathes with the track rather than against it. Drop in your photos, pick a song, and it does the rest.
Experience
Building platform infrastructure and learning how architectural decisions scale across teams, systems, and time.
Started with design, moved into analytics, and spent a lot of time seeing how product decisions look from both sides.
Built something early, in a space I cared about. More important than what it became was what I learned about what I still didn't know.
Writing
Coming soon
A weekend of prototyping teaches you more than months of research. Here's why I moved to build-first thinking, and what I had to unlearn to get there.
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Retrieval-Augmented Generation, stripped of the jargon: what it actually does, when to reach for it, and when it's the wrong tool entirely.
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The mindset shift that changed how I build: moving from implementing specs to asking whether the spec was right to begin with.
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If you're working on something interesting, I'd be happy to hear about it. Whether it's a product, a side project, a technical problem, or just an idea you're exploring.
