I grew up in the Bay Area around lakes and hangars, asking how things work and trying to solve them—chess, Rubik's cubes, tools, airplanes. That curiosity stuck.
I studied data science at Chapman University and swam division III there. I'm an investment partner at FoundersX, investing in the top founders across the world to shape the future.
I fly for perspective and fun. I build to learn and I try to move fast on things that matter.
Around the Bay: Alice's in the Santa Cruz Mountains, Woodside Bakery, and the Palo Alto farmers market.
Things I've built, broken, or kept running for the joy of understanding the stack a layer deeper.
Aviation telemetry node, attic-mounted, PoE-powered.
A self-contained ADS-B receiver running dump1090-fa on a Raspberry Pi 4 with an RTL-SDR Blog v3 and a 1090 MHz filtered antenna. Feeds into a local Postgres node and cross-references against my own logged flights — closes the loop between what I fly and what's in the air around me. Anonymized aggregates push upstream to ADS-B Exchange.
Treat the home network like a small org.
UniFi UDM-Pro with VLANs separating trust / IoT / guest / lab. Pi-hole with Unbound for recursive DNS over an isolated VLAN. Tailscale mesh handles all remote access, so nothing inbound is exposed to the public internet. SSO via Authelia and WebAuthn — primary YubiKey 5C, second key in a safe. Container traffic streams to Loki for retroactive forensics.
A personal software stack — Claude Code + DGX Spark.
Most of the software I run on a given day, I built. Claude Code does the writing; an NVIDIA DGX Spark serves Qwen 2.5 72B and Llama 3.3 70B locally via vLLM at ~115 tok/s, exposed as an OpenAI-compatible endpoint. The result is a small library of tools shaped to my actual workflow — a note system that talks back, a journaling app I can interrogate, a flight-prep assistant that pulls live METARs and TAFs into a kneeboard PDF, a Strava→iCal mirror. Side projects too: I keep a fork of OpenClaw building cleanly on Apple Silicon, mostly for the joy of debugging mid-90s C++ in 2026.
FAA certified private pilot with a high-performance endorsement.
A few favorites
Built the aerobic engine swimming D3 at Chapman; running picked up after. Live data from Strava.
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