In 2021 I ended an 8 year adventure as a Senior Engineer at Google. Since then, I've been working with companies on creative projects, prototyping, or advising their engineering teams. Some of the bigger companies I've worked with (that I can talk about) include Google, Revel and Moderna.
My last project before quitting Google was Magenta -- making music and art with Machine Learning; I built the majority of the users-and-model interactions, such as these ones. Here's the publications I was on during that time.
In 2020 I did a 6 month fellowship with the Trevor project, where I lead a team that worked on classifying suicidal ideation posts on a social media platform.
Prior to 2018, I worked on Polymer, and was a big advocate for Web Components in both the open source and standards communities. I maintained and owned one of the first (and at the time, largest!) suite of custom elements. During this time I was also a member of the Emoji subcommittee, which is a career high 😃 .
Before that, I used to work on Chrome. Do you know that little profile switcher button that in top right corner of your browser? Yeah, I did that (but now it looks different. It's been 6+ years after all). Before that, in the prehistoric times, I worked in finance, despite not really understanding or caring about it. I have a masters in Computer Science from McGill University. I wrote a thesis on Reinforcement Learning, which you can read here, though I'm not sure why you would.
I've recently started focusing less on tech and more on art, which is something I've wanted to do all my life! You can see how that is going on my studio page.
✨ Do you want us to work together?
I am available for freelance work in a consulting capacity (not as a full-time engineer), or as a tech advisor for your company. My areas of tech expertise are the web platform, creative applications and interactions, and usable machine learning. I care deeply about users, performance, accessibility, and having things be functional. I am especially interested in (creative) projects that help people create things, public sector organizations and non profits. I have absolutely no interest in anything related to crypto, the block chain, or most areas of finance.
If you'd like us to work together, check out the ways in which I can help your company.
☎︎ Do you want to just say hi?
My social media hell of choice used to be Twitter,
which I've abandoned since its muskification.
I also have a GitHub AMA repo
where you can ask me things, or read what other people have asked me.
If you really need to, you can send me an email,
but know that it'll take me an embarassing time to reply.
It's not you, it's misplaced anxiety.
⁉ What are these cute emoji?
Why, thank you for asking! They are from the original Docomo emoji set, from the birth of time (2001). A while back I made a font of them, and this year I decided I hadn't been using them enough.