My first introduction to programming was writing computer games in BASIC on an 8086 XT in my Dad's home office. Growing up, my heroes were Michio Kaku (the string theorist who built a particle accelerator in his garage as a kid), Stephen Wolfram (creator of Mathematica), and Ray Kurzweil (digital piano inventor & futurist). For me, these icons represent an idealized vision of the future in which seamless access to advanced technologies creates a vast playground for ideation and creation, enabling a new and better form of existence for humanity in the next century.

Currently, I work at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) on the Science IT Consulting team, where I specialize in the deployment of AI inference services for the Lab and help scientists with the deployment and optimization of high-performance computing workflows, big-data processing, and full-stack application development for basic energy science research.

Prior to my current appointment, I spent ten years in the high-pressure zero-to-one startup scene building and running EnChroma, Inc. - a Berkeley-based company responsible for creating the color-blind glasses that captured global attention through viral videos viewed over 1 billion times, extensive media coverage including the New York Times Sunday Business section, and referenced in pop-culture TV (Portlandia S8E4).

As a co-founder at EnChroma, I played a pivotal role in growing the company from concept to commercial success, securing robust IP protection, establishing the initial D2C operations pipelines, and scaling the company to hundreds of retail locations worldwide. Current projections estimate the color blind glasses market is growing at a CAGR of 16% and is expected to reach $27 million by 2027, with EnChroma well positioned at the forefront.

Prior to my professional career, I completed a B.A. in Pure Mathematics at UC Berkeley with additional coursework in Computer Science, Probability Theory and Statistics. For a five-year period after my degree, I worked as research staff in two UC Berkeley research labs: The Auditory Perception Lab (Department of Psychology under Dr. Erv Hafter) and The Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT, Department of Music, directed by Dr. David Wessel). 

During this academic research period, my focus areas included auditory perception, acoustics & signal processing, spatial audio, interaction design, real-time data processing, and experimental user interfaces. My work has been published in 20 granted patents and 25 papers in conferences and journals worldwide, including the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME), and The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.