I am a systems software engineer with broad interests ranging across hardware/software interfaces, accelerator architecture, runtime framework and OS development, and scientific computing. I have an undergraduate degree in physics and math/computer science (double major) from Lewis & Clark College, where I helped build their first ever research computing infrastructure. I have experience with research software engineering and all aspects of scientific computation, as well as with building production-grade systems software for AI accelerators.

My academic interests include quantum chromodynamics and thermodynamics, high-performance computing and parallelism, cloud and grid computing, and heterogeneous computing. I'm particularly interested in the intersection of computation and science. Some of the most interesting things I've been able to do are helping domain scientists meet their computational needs. Much of the work I've done has to do with making computational scientific resources easier to access and utilize in order to streamline the process of computation-based science. I strongly believe that the free sharing of knowledge, be it through open source computer code or open access scientific journals leads to better science and better society.

I enjoy designing, building, operating, and otherwise working with small high-performance computing systems. I especially enjoy helping small institutions make uses of cutting-edge HPC technology. I am talented at extracting the maximum possible performance out of small systems in a user-friendly manner. I have a lot of fun designing and building custom middleware and system software to make scientific computing tasks performant, easy, and useful for a wide audience, ranging from undergraduate students to professional researchers to faculty. I have experience with guiding systems through all phases of their life cycle, from hardware procurement to sustained operation and long-term support.

Outside of work, I enjoy flying airplanes, building radios, reading books, playing sports, cooking, and watching baseball.