Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
—Archimedes

My priorities are, in order:
family and friends,
data systems,
dancing.

My mission is to build the systems that will bring us into a pro-humanity future.

The world, and my life, have been overturned by technological waves: first personal computers, then mobile phones, and now AI. We've achieved more than I imagined decades ago; yet we've also lost sight of both what's possible and what's in good taste. Still, I believe that technology is a promising solution to the problems of technology; that technology remains one of the longest levers for expanding the human experience; and that these technological changes have and will continue to be unlocked by leaps in systems capabilities.

At Eventual, I'm doing whatever it takes to build those systems. We're the team behind Daft, the next-generation distributed data engine for multimodal data. AI progress depends on processing ever-increasing volumes of high-quality data. Unlocking unstructured data was just the beginning; multimodal data is next.

Previously, I sped up unstructured data processing at Databricks as part of the Photon team, and before that I irreparably broke database pedagogy at Brown.

I believe in
improving tirelessly (自强不息),
setting your heart ablaze (心を燃やせ),
and that life is a game you can play seriously.