My Story
self-taught developer with business acumen and scientific research background
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Scientific Research & User Experience
Early in my career, I focused on using technology to meet customer needs. I conducted laboratory research to study the effects of ultrasound on human tissue to support transdermal drug delivery (e.g. needleless insulin injection). For a global manufacturer, I investigated and modeled issues with medical devices, determining root cause and developing automated solutions to improve safety and customer experience.
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Strategy Consulting Across 3 Continents
For over 4 years, I led international consulting teams for multi-national corporate clients. As engagement manager for the development of Biogen's first enterprise-wide data strategy, I designed the research and structured the proposal to the Board. For Intel's $17B acquisition of Altera, I crafted the transition brand strategy which expanded the customer base and boosted revenue the subsequent year.
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Transition to Software Development
I taught myself to code and quickly became addicted, staying up all night building games and small apps. I expanded my skillset by pair programming with senior developers, studying CS theory, and building more sophisticated apps with web frameworks. At Ragtag, I built features for an open-source Rails API that is a Call-To-Action aggregator across the U.S.
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Engineering at Square and CashApp
In 2018 I started working as a software engineer at Jack Dorsey's revolutionary fintech, Block, in San Francisco. For the global consumer-facing CashApp, I led a project to architect and optimize a paradigm shift of the data model across 100s of services and dataflows. This enabled new types of products, like gift cards. I led other large projects including extractions to microservices and an adaptation of the Square platform to support the launch of a new U.S. bank, fundamentally changing lending processes.
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Machine Learning and Move to France
Inspired by the rapid proliferation of AI, I studied machine learning. In addition to tiny LLMs, I built an MCP server which orchestrates responses from multiple frontier LLMs. I then built a RAG application complete with bespoke ingestion pipeline and evaluation harness. Eager for broader horizons, I relocated to France and accepted a role at Datadog, building tooling for the massive event platform, which handles the observability data for most large tech companies.
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