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This is styled more like a formal resume, which may or may not be what you seek:

For something a bit less formal, with more tangents and personal details: see here
For an HR-software-friendly, PDF version: see here
For my LinkedIn: see here

BSe/MSe in Computer Science, 3.7 GPA, Dean’s List
Lead TA for grad Distributed Systems, undergrad Discrete Math; studied German lit/lang/history in Berlin

Graphite helped teams collaborate to ship higher quality software. Cursor helped SWEs build software with AI.
Repeatedly trusted to lead and scope-out the most-important bottlenecks at Graphite, from very early-on
Owned the GitHub Sync Engine, improved app’s critical path perf >10x, improved o11y/efficiency/reliability
Deputized to lead an infra team sprint to prepare write-heavy Graphite infra for 20x traffic overhead¹
Built the data models and spearheaded APIs for our GitHub competitor, Origin (informed by above experience!)
Gave ~100 interviews (including for managers+), trusted sev-resolver, constant perf tinkerer

Yogi turns consumer feedback (reviews, social, etc.) into actionable insights for F500 CPG companies.
Most senior engineer, hired to help steer the eng org through a critical phase of growth ($1mm -> $10mm ARR)
Helped 10x the performance and reliability of the products’ critical paths (charting, alerts, filtering)
Eager contributor to product (everything from design and workflows to roadmapping) and broader eng culture
Helped junior and senior engineers grow into high-agency, enabling some of their best work!

Built an on-call vet telehealth service, emergency insurance, a digital RX pharmacy
Scaled 0-1 and 1-10 with a team of experienced players after securing a $100mm valuation Series A
Essential contributor to hiring, product/business development, engineering culture

SWE on the Broker Engineering team, we built web-based tools for insurance brokers
Owned the critical path of our broker systems: appointments, policy attribution and (especially!! $$$) commissions
Architected and implemented expansions of this system into Medicare Advantage, Cigna partnerships
Led build-vs-buy decisions, built out a new eng team around broker commissions
Eng onboarding leader, blog editor/contributor, intern mentor, interviewer, design review and tech talk contributor
Promoted every major cycle: from “New Grad” to “Senior” in 2 years

Two small, Computer Vision startups: played with deep learning (CA) and “3D structure from motion” (Remote).
TD Securities, NYC: DevOps-style work modernizing infrastructure for a derivatives-trading team
Consensys, NYC: contracted to do more DevOps-style work for a portfolio company
Oscar: Fell in love with the eng culture and ambitious environment!

A “home lab”, with a homemade RSS reader, secret manager, pi-hole, git server, vpn behind nginx
A personal finance OS, using GNU Ledger, sed/awk, gnuplot, Python parsers and generators
Personal site, stitched together with markdown/sed/pandoc, S3/Cloudflare… maybe where you found this doc!
I love to hike (3500 Club #4466), climb, run, cycle, cook/bake, read, play guitar, fish poorly, and support Tottenham

I love to learn new tools³! These are the ones I’ve had the opportunity to use most.

Bold means I’m intimately familiar, italics mean I use it once per quarter. Plain conveys exposure in days long gone.

languages: TypeScript, Python, Go, C/++, Java
databases: PostgreSQL/SQLite3/MySQL, ClickHouse, Kafka/BullMQ/RabbitMQ, Redis
tooling: vim, agent, gRPC/proto3/GraphQL, Datadog (I <3 Datadog), git/GitHub

I have learned soooooo much about PostgreSQL, BullMQ and Node’s event loop. More than I want to know.↩︎
I was laid off in my first week as a Production Engineer at Meta, in 2022/11. 1 week was enough to see this startup guy was up to no good!↩︎
Regarding tools… everywhere I’ve worked, “just ask Adam! // have you asked Adam?” has become a running joke. At various stages of my career, I’ve been known as “The $THING guy”, where $THING has been the things in bold! Not just because I know these tools or possess a shocking degree of patience for learning, but also because I simply must help you learn them, too! :)↩︎