About Me

The best way to contact me is LinkedIn for data stuff and Twitter for everything else. Or check out Linktree. My résumé is here.

I’ve lived in five cities: Corpus Christi, TX; Cambridge, MA; Chicago, IL; Jersey City, NJ; and Brooklyn, NY, where I’ve been since 2015.

I studied economics with a minor (“secondary field”) in mathematical sciences at Harvard. It was a weird time for me. I cover some of the story in “The Introvert’s Dilemma”—although I think there’s even more to it than that. One day I’ll do a part 2.

I’ve been with my high school sweetheart for almost a quarter century now. We had a canine son, a yellow lab named Gunther, who was a Good Boy!

Data science has been good to me. I’m not naturally talented in math—I’ve always been better at writing over math—but I love learning about it, and my curiosity for the subject has taken me far enough to make a career out of it, at least. I learned so much on the job and have lots of people to thank for it: David Glueck, who gave me two big opportunities early in my career and taught me about proper data warehousing; Matt Cox and Dave Stern, whose dev ops knowledge is the only reason I could handle a Head of Data Science job for the first time; and Craig Elbert, my hero in many ways. It can get weird to list people because I could write whole essays of professional thanks—and I actually have, here and in innumerable Slack posts lost to the archival black hole.

I’m interested in language learning and ed tech. It’s been awesome to actively participate in the rise of agentic coding in 2025—shout-out to Claude Code and Antigravity (Gemini 3 Pro). I feel like I have a good handle on things now, enough to manage the ambiguities and difficulties of the new era and to make informed predictions about where we’re going.

Although I like logging movies and books, I would actually like to consume less and produce more in the second half of life. (What’s all that consumption going to do if I don’t actually make something myself?)