about me
me, in a nutshell
- loves figuring out how things work
- likes making computers do interesting things
- currently a senior software engineer at yardstik
- enjoys listening to music, moving my body, meeting new people, mindfulness, broomball, large language models, the color yellow, oktoberfest brews, psychology, philosophy, uncle iroh from "avatar: the last airbender", and elle mcgibbons from "dungeon crawler carl"
married to the greatest woman in the world
- karaoke, anytime, anywhere
- seeing musicals and pop punk shows irl
- getting as much autumn in as possible
- finishing 'the haunting of hill house'
- lots of rupaul's drag race (UK season 7)
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working on perfecting our "signatures"
- cocktails: need to decide on something with gin, a classic wisconsin old fashioned, a s'mores chocolate brandy drink, and chocolate martinis
- appetizers: large pretzel with good cheese sauce, spring rolls
- meals: pork schnitzel with spätzle, rice bowls with chipotle-inspired mix-ins
- desserts: crème brûlée, molten chocolate lava cake
my incredible kiddos
- minecraft and roblox for days
- dancing with the stars, k-pop demon hunters, gravity falls, and the live action reboot of vampirina
- song and dance performances around the house
- getting my blue belt in kung fu with my daughter
- walking home from school with my son
- watching my son ace his part as a gingerbread man in the nutcracker
- watching my daughter light up the stage during onstage
main focuses
💻 become a stronger software engineer
- train a proprietary classification model to categorize criminal offenses
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fine tune a large language model to extract specific data from unstructured surgical reports
create visual flow chart of question routine- create more comprehensive flow chart with the actual questions used
💪 get buff as hell
- since december 2024, i've done 100 situps a day for 303 days
- since may 2025, i've done 100 burpees a day for 80 days
- since june 2025, i've completed 62 GTX workouts
- keep eating well and moving my body every day
🧰 clean off the work bench
- get better solution for gloves
- 3d print a peg board holder for your ifixit kit
- replace cartridge in upstairs tub
- empty the “indoor” box that's been sitting on the bench forever
- store other miscellaneous tools (maybe custom print holders for those?)
- attempt sealing the gutter again (find disposable gloves)
- finish Mario kart trophy (can I 3d print a plaque?)
make labels for the storage bin you boughtstore pumpkin carving tools and LED candle lightsfix loud storm doorfix sliding porch door
🛜 run ethernet cable throughout my house
- decide exactly where to run cable
- plot out where the drops will happen
order cable and new crimping tool
perennial projects
🎧 curate the perfect digital garden of music
- current vibes: pynch, the beths, bonny light horseman, the cords, the rezillos, mumford & sons, the car is on fire, blink 182, the suicide machines, and emapea
- you can see all my favs on this janky, vibe-coded page that reads directly from my plex library
📖 get back into reading
- just caught up to where we're at with dungeon crawler carl (sadly gotta wait for next spring for book 8!)
- i recently went to a book store and bought physical books for the first time in a long time... so maybe i should bust one of those out?
on deck
👽 turn the garage into a 70s ufo/alien themed chill zone
- clean it out (sigh... again)
- figure out how to convert the projector screen into something with a motor
- organize the kid's corner of the garage
- create a stage that folds down. when upright, it holds all my tools and whatnot.
🎧 make my own music player
- still in the dreaming phase here, but i keep thinking about this mockup of a physical winamp player and i want that to exist
🏚️ rebuild the back patio
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when spring comes:
- set final grades & strings
- add bedding sand
- lay pavers
- compact + edging
- sweep joint sand
- garden bed fill
- glue wall caps
This about page was last updated on 2025-11-10