Here is a non-comprehensive list of the things I do:

Tech

I’m not currently working on any side projects outside of my job in this space. I love computer architecture and computer systems and I will talk to you about them forever. My primary interests / skills:

  • Datacenter and serverless computing (from two graduate seminar classes I took while at MIT)
  • Computer architectures / FPGAs, specifically:
    • architectural approaches to exploiting irregular parallelism (from my MEng thesis)
    • HDL at a somewhat introductory level (from TAing during my MEng)
    • FPGA place-and-route (from my MEng thesis)
  • OS power management and heterogeneous architectures (from my current work at Microsoft)

I write a lot of C. My preferred scripting language is Python. In the past, I have written a lot of Java, Javascript/Typescript, C#, and C++; I have touched code in, among many languages, Go, Perl, Rust, MATLAB, R, and Kotlin. I think you could throw most programming languages at me and I could understand them; my next goal is to learn a functional language.

Art

I have more specifics about my artistic pursuits here, but a summary will suffice for this page. My primary focus in the arts right now are on playwriting and poetry; I have written some fiction and creative non-fiction, but these are my current focus. I keep a semi-regular blog here.

Here is a list of other artistic interests/skills:

  • Singing tenor (currently with the Northwest Chamber Chorus)
  • Piano (intermediate; mostly for musical theatre - shows + rehearsal piano)
  • Violin (intermediate-advanced; most recently for musical theatre but would like to get back to symphonic playing)
  • Music direction:
    • Vocal (college acapella group; two musicals)
    • Orchestral (four musicals, including one piano-conducting)
  • Translations and subtitles for plays (Mandarin Chinese)

I am currently investing a lot of time in reading; my most recent favorites are A Silent Traveller in Boston and House of Light. I also love musicals; my all-time favorites are In the Heights, Rent, and Next to Normal.

Sports™

I have gotten into bouldering recently. That’s all that needs to be said about that.

I despise running but I like long walks—some of my longest walks have been:

  • Kittery, ME to Cambridge, MA (61-65 mi.)
  • Hopkinton, MA to Copley Square (Boston Marathon; 26.2 mi.)
  • Braintree Station to Riverside Station via Mattapan and Oak Grove Stations (21 mi.)
  • Issaquah Transit Center to Lumen Field via downtown Bellevue trails (20-25 mi.)
  • Cambridge, MA to Bedford, MA via Minuteman Trail (14 mi.)

I like going to Seattle Sounders games. Seattle doesn’t have an NBA team, so I can safely say that I am a fan of the Boston Celtics.

If puzzlehunting, crosswording, and Learned League are sports, then I do those as well.

Ask me about…

  • …what there is to do in South Dakota
  • …why you should take organic chemistry in college
  • …why I bought once $500 worth of fortune cookies which all just said “unsubscribe”
  • …how hard, exactly, one should commit to a bit
  • …why the best lists contain no more than four bullet points