I’m a software developer, although my career hasn’t exactly been a straight line. I have also been a teacher, researcher, entrepreneur, manager, and data executive.
I’m also husband to Jen and Daddy to four wonderful little people.
Features
Along with individual posts, this site contains some featured series:
- The Fake Story of Music: my explanation of where our weird and wonderful system of music comes from.
- A Former Teacher’s Story: the journal of my brief teaching career in Baltimore City Public Schools, through Teach For America.
- Our Financial Planning Voyage: the journal of my process of getting my family’s financial plan in place.
- Travels: the 40+ countries I’ve been to. Many more, if you count territories that aren’t fully independent countries.
Appearances
October 16, 2025
I spoke at DataDog’s Signals and Summits event on my experience of 9 years with /dev/color.
August 11, 2025
I discussed my religious journey on the Breakfast In Hell Podcast.
November 10, 2023
I was invited back for the Champions Wildcard Tournament, appearing on November 10, 2023. I have written about the life of a single Jeopardy! clue and how my approach to Final Jeopardy cost me my last match.
September 2, 2021
ZSA, makers of my Moonlander keyboard, interviewed me to talk about my office setup.
February 18-19, 2021
I was a Jeopardy! contestant, appearing on February 18 & 19, 2021. I achieved my life goal of winning a match.
October 22, 2020
Through my role as an Engineering Manager at Better.com, I was interviewed by The Muse.
September 16, 2019
I spoke about GraphQL on the Ladybug Podcast.
September 6, 2019
I participated in a /dev/color Q&A Session, hosted by Quora.
July 25, 2018
My childhood friend, Aaron Mayo, interviewed me on his podcast, The Millennial Black Dad (archived episode web page).
August 29, 2017
An interview with me appeared on the /dev/color blog, an organization that I helped bring to New York.
April 8, 2017
I presented at Scalar Conference 2017 in Warsaw, Poland.
Projects and Pieces
- I wrote several pieces for Artsy’s engineering blog:
- I wrote a piece on how to improve hiring in engineering when I worked at HuffPost.
- During brief time as a teacher, I managed to mostly keep up a journal of my experience, which remains the most significant writing project of my life.
- At one point, I was cofounder of a startup called Breakrs, which was a social network for music discovery built around a fantasy sports-inspired game dynamic. We were finalists of the 2013 NYU Stern Entrepreneur’s Challenge. Unfortunately, there’s not much left of Breakrs to show, but it was a pivotal experience for me, in many ways.
- I’ve become pretty avid about home automation, and you can read about one of my more involved projects, how I linked two ceiling fans to my SmartThings setup.
- While at NYU, I published a conference paper on a project my colleagues and I built to simulate reverb in physical spaces.
- I composed an avant garde electronic music piece I’m pretty proud of, called Wanderers.
- I’m an avid traveller, and at one point, I did a decent job of writing about my trips.
Presences
- I post on LinkedIn, Reddit, Bluesky, Mastodon, Threads, and Twitter.
- I’m a big fan of Stack Overflow, which I consider to be one of the greatest things to have ever happened for software developers.
- I comment frequently on Hacker News.
- I’ve been a minor contributor to open source projects over the years, which you can find on my GitHub profile.
- I do occasionally post things to Facebook for public consumption. If you know me personally, feel free to friend me.
- I write on Medium, but mostly in response to other people’s writings.
- I occasionally answer questions on Quora.
Roles
- I’m a Democratic committeeperson for my local district in the Middlesex County Democratic Organization and Metuchen Democrats.
- I serve on Metuchen, NJ’s Zoning Board of Adjustments.
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