I studied Systems Design EngineeringInterdisciplinary mix of software, mechanical, electrical, design, human factors, modelling, and optimization. Co-op program.$$x^{\ast }=\arg \underset{x\in \mathcal{F}}{\min }\mathbb{E}\left[C(x,\xi )\right]$$x* equals argmin over x in F of the expected value of C of x and xi.Coursework covered numerical methods (linear systems, root-finding), optimization (simplex, interior-point, constrained/multiobjective design), pattern recognition (Bayesian classifiers, discriminants, clustering), statistics (estimation, hypothesis tests, regression), cognitive ergonomics (signal detection, human error, supervisory control), and scheduling (integer/constraint programming, resource constraints, heuristics).See an example class profile at uWaterloo.

Some companies I worked on:

1. 01Simulating atoms (Direct AtomicsEquivariant GNN to approximate DFT simulations for atomic systems.Trained a 13.8M parameter eSCN model on Alexandria data to predict energies and forces from atom types, positions, and lattice structure.Lesson: the technical shortcut worked, but industrial materials workflows are super hard to sell. Read the post-mortem here.)
2. 02A governed context graphInfrastructure for agents to coordinate through shared, structured state instead of one giant orchestrator.The graph made organizational context typed, versioned, and governed: schemas, proposals, diffs, review, merge, and audit trails.Thesis: knowledge should be treated like code, owned by the company, and updated safely by humans and agents. Raised $3M USD. for agents and knowledge work.
3. 03Helping websites show up in chatbot answers (λ eignStarted as a Profound/Peec.ai style tracker for what LLMs say about a brand.Pivoted from inspector to mechanic: JSON-LD, llms.txt, shadow URLs, and safer content transforms that could improve citations in generated answers.Wound down as visibility tools commoditized and incumbents like Cloudflare moved into markdown for agents.)

Some companies I've worked at:

1. 01Customer support ticket clusteringBERT-based clustering for high-volume internal support tickets.Pivoted from topic clustering to finding similar historical tickets for technical support engineers.Result: 95% of tickets had useful similarities; about 50% of tickets were resolved 80% faster.BERT→UMAP→HDBSCAN→c-TF-IDF→MMREmbedClusterLabel at Cloudflare (early 2022).
2. 02Legal document QA RAG pipelineInternal Harvey-style assistant for legal docs in early 2023.Pipeline: ingest PDFs, extract text with Azure Document Intelligence, chunk docs, embed chunks, retrieve relevant sections, and answer with context.Explored GPT-4 API vs local models, fine-tuning/classifier options, Ray/Ray Serve deployment, and prompting methods. at Protocol Labs (early 2023).
3. 03Product/design/swe internships (BlackBerry QNX w/ AWS, Wind River Studio for cloud-native embedded systems, Mount Sinai cytopathology).

This is the latest snapshot of my personality archetypeRay Dalio used personality maps at Bridgewater to make working styles explicit.Mine: The Shaper. Independent, direct, original, impatient, and good at pushing through resistance.Useful because it shows both strengths and failure modes.Take the test.

Some things I believe in:

1. 01Mouth closed, don't get fed.
2. 02Desperation never served anybody. Suffering is a choice.
3. 03Life is too short to play zero-sum games (e.g. status).
4. 04Kindness isn't niceness. Signaling virtue is a vice.
5. 05Character is grace when the chips are down.
6. 06Grit is a superpower, but so is quitting.
7. 07Be a hyperrealistAppreciate every reality, even the harsh ones. Despise impractical idealism.Dreams matter, but the people who build great things aren't idle dreamers. They're grounded in reality, understand cause and effect, and use principles to get what they want.. Dreams + Reality + Determination = A Successful Life.