Why this site exists

For years, this site was a museum of student projects: a command-line tool, a hackathon search demo, a parking-pass detector, a screenshot, and a list of technologies underneath each one.

That was the right site when I was applying for internships. The question it answered was simple: Can this person build software?

It is no longer the question I want the site to answer.

I now care more about the decisions inside the work. What was the real problem? Which part did I own? What made the obvious approach fail? Who saw the decision differently? What changed after we shipped it? A stack of project cards leaves most of that out.

I also don’t want a site that turns my current job into a finished professional identity. I’m a founding engineer at Lightfield, and much of my attention is on software used by both people and models. That is the work I happen to be closest to now. It may become a long-term intellectual direction, or it may lead me somewhere I cannot see yet. The archive should preserve that uncertainty instead of editing it out afterward.

So the site now has three main parts.

Work explains the trajectory and the systems behind it. I want it to be clear about ownership, tradeoffs, and outcomes without becoming a second résumé.

Writing is where I try to turn experience into an argument. The useful pieces will probably begin with something I believed too confidently, a system that behaved differently than expected, or a decision that looked different depending on where you sat.

The Log is less disciplined. It is for restaurants, cities, films, music, photographs, links, and things I want to remember. Not every interest needs to become a lesson about software.

The old projects are still here under Early Experiments. Some were good. Some were mainly excuses to learn a model or system by making it concrete. Together, they show a path more honestly than a polished selection would.

If this site works, the reader should not leave with a slogan. They should have a sense of what I have done, what I notice, how I make decisions, and where my thinking is still moving.