about me

Tim straddling on a stool with a goofy facial expression

tl;dr:

me, in a nutshell

  • loves figuring out how things work
  • likes making computers do cool things
  • currently a senior software engineer at yardstik
  • enjoys listening to music, walking, meeting new people, mindfulness, broomball, large language models, the color yellow, psychology, philosophy, being in bed by 10p, and nostalgia-inducing media from my childhood

married to the greatest woman in the world

  • karaoke, anytime, anywhere
  • seeing musicals and pop punk shows irl
  • crazy rummy on the patio
  • lots of rupaul's drag race

amazing daughter

  • watching her play in softball games and soccer matches
  • re-watching gravity falls
  • bike rides to JJs

amazing son

  • minecraft for days
  • song and dance performances in the kitchen
  • mutually getting better at the monkey bars this summer

current goals

computer-related goals

  • train a proprietary classification model
  • fine tune a large language model to extract specific data from unstructured reports
  • analyze the data from the first big run of kneescraper to figure out which questions the locally-running LLM did well in answering

personal goals

  • 💪 do 100 situps and 100 burpees every single day (no exceptions)
    • since december 2024, i've done 100 situps a day for 207 days
    • since may 2025, i've done 100 burpees a day for 80 days
  • 👽 turn the garage into a 70s ufo/alien themed chill zone
    • get rid of all this stuff before the end of the school year as soon as possible
    • figure out how to convert the projector screen into something with a motor
    • organize the kid's corner of the garage
    • finish 3d printing the light up alien head (and order the LEDs)
    • clean off all the storage shelves on the north wall
    • clean the work bench off in the garage
    • clean out the pile of junk in the northeast corner
  • 🎧 curate the perfect digital garden of music
  • 🎸 read more musician memoirs
    • deryck whibley (in progress)
    • geddy lee
    • quincy jones
    • serj tankian
    • mark hoppus
    • dave grohl
    • (send me more suggestions in this genre please)
  • 🏚️ rebuild the back patio
    • pick out patio pavers
    • budget out cost of fill and pavers based on estimated size of patio
    • demo the existing back patio

This about page was last updated on 2025-06-28