My bio
I'm a principal engineer at Kensho, working on developer productivity tools. I've previously also held architecture, management, and tech lead individual contributor roles, as well as stewarding Kensho's new grad and early-career recruiting strategy. One of the folks whom I mentored, first as an intern and then as a full-time engineer, wrote a blog post about his experience working with me.
I've presented my work at many conferences and meetups. You can find the full list on the Talks page.
I enjoy skiing, both playing and watching ice hockey, and good sci-fi books and TV shows such as the Expanse series.
Selected awards
- two bronze medals at the International Mathematical Olympiad (2009, 2011)
- two bronze medals at the International Olympiad in Informatics (2010, 2011)
- 7th place at the CSAW Security Capture-The-Flag 2014 finals as part of MIT's team
- gold and silver medals at the Balkan Student Mathematical Competition (2009, 2008)
- two gold medals at the InfoMatrix international programming competition (2008, 2009)
- gold and bronze medals at the Junior Balkan Mathematical Olympiad (2008, 2007)
As an intern at Dropbox during the summer of 2013, I also won a runner-up "Beast Mode" (best of show) Hack Week award for building a pool shot coach system. The system offered shot advice by tracking the balls and cue stick positions using machine vision and an overhead camera.
College
I earned a B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2015. At MIT, I did performance engineering and computer security research:
- An idea I had in my senior year's Advanced Performance Engineering class (6.886) evolved into a research paper that achieved 9-13x faster graph processing performance than the prior state-of-the-art.
- My team's Computer Systems Security (6.858) final project discovered vulnerabilities in six popular "PC remote control" applications with 2–7.5 million downloads in the Google Play Store alone.
- My team's Network and Computer Security (6.857) final project discovered a way to work around Android's camera use indicator policies and use the device's camera to capture pictures or video without any user-noticeable indication.
- As part of the Creating Video Games (CMS.611) course in 2012, a friend and I built three iterations of a built-from-scratch physics engine for our two-player co-op 2D platformer game Psychobunnies. The final iteration of the engine used a parametric method to solve the intersection-of-parabolas problem, enabling 120FPS+ gameplay even on weak single-threaded hardware. Our final presentation video is on YouTube.
During the summers between college semesters, I did software engineering internships at Palantir, Dropbox, and Firebase (shortly before the Google acquisition). I am deeply grateful to the kind folks at those companies that mentored me and helped me get to where I am today.