I'm an engineer and founder based in the Bay Area. My career has been a series of "firsts" in autonomy — I keep showing up early at companies and then building the thing that hasn't been built yet.
Most recently I co-founded Sauron with Kevin Hartz to build a new kind of home security — one that uses the full perception and autonomy stack of a self-driving car to protect people where they live. As CTO, I built the technical architecture, recruited the team, and took the company from zero to first customer deployments.
Before that, I spent four and a half years at Zipline, where I led vehicle behaviors across their drone platforms. My team's work was the foundation for the FAA's first-ever authorization of commercial beyond-visual-line-of-sight drone deliveries in the US. Before Zipline, I was the first behavior prediction hire at Nuro, where I helped enable the world's first unmanned commercial deliveries. And before that, I was an early engineer at Zoox, leading decision planning for their first autonomous rides on public streets in San Francisco.
I have a PhD in Computer Science from Cornell and did a postdoc at Caltech before turning down R1 faculty offers to build things that ship. My research on formal methods for safe autonomy has been cited over 3,000 times.
I once won Best Pun at the Bay Area Pun-Off.