Now
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Live in beautiful Oakland CA.
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Engineering manager at Propel, running the internal AI platform team. We build the tools our teams and our users need to work with AI safely.
The Career
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Came to Propel through its AI residency, a year on SNAP and Medicaid working alongside people who have actually run those programs. During the government shutdown I built crawlers that got official state benefit updates in front of Propel's users, and put together a database of active food pantries.
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Was briefly (3 months) doing engineering at Handshake, working to position graduates for success in the job market.
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Was a Staff Engineering Manager at Fastly, continuing to lead the Glitch team within Developer Experience. I got to watch the next generation of the internet being made daily, and it was pretty awesome.
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Was an engineering manager at Glitch, switching between writing code and managing the entire engineering team. Led the team through the acquisition by Fastly.
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Previously engineering lead at NavaPBC, leading the team responsible for building the next generation of healthcare.gov and integrated benefits.
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2016 Engineering fellow at Code for America, working with the Mayor's office of New York to improve access to city services for the people who needed them most. This is what got me to stay in government work!
Origin Story
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Was a teenage serial entrepreneur: created Subeta, CharaHub, Valenth, Squiby (sold 💰), and even bought a few games.
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Founded Subeta at age 13. Has existed in some form since then (at a peak of 30 employees), with thousands of active players today! My favorite pets are the Kumos (which I 'created', it's just a dog) and Experiment #333, a fluffy dog + squid.
Off the Clock
Obsessed with pop music, Carly Rae stan forever. Held the record for most scrobbles of Evanescence for 3 years. The biggest fan of Britney Spears you've met.
Love to travel to new places. Spent 2013 traveling Europe with a friend, a different city every week. I've been to music festivals in rural Sweden, welcomed into the home of ambassadors I'd just met on the train, and been to most Disney theme parks.