building agents at Vellum · previously scaled edtech to 1M+ users at Fiveable · based in denver
i like shipping things fast, running long distances slowly, and finding the fun in hard problems.
| Project | What it is |
|---|---|
| 🏡 Dillow | daily real-estate price-guessing game — guess the home's price in 5 tries |
| 🏰 Avalon Online | web app for the social deduction board game — notes, strategy, betrayal |
| 🍲 Potlucky | coordinate potlucks without the "i'll bring napkins" problem |
| 🔍 Whomst.info | check domain availability over iMessage |
| Project | What it is |
|---|---|
| 🌽 Cornhole Fiesta | automated cornhole scoring from OpenCV computer vision, wired to custom Linux kernel drivers for the stepper motor, accelerometer, and 7-segment display |
| 🕹️ DDR on Cortex‑M4 | dance dance revolution as bare-metal C firmware on a TI Tiva LaunchPad — hand-rolled drivers for the LCD, EEPROM, capacitive touch, and PS/2 controller |
| 🖥️ WiscArchitecture | a CPU built from scratch in Verilog on a custom ISA — grew from single-cycle to a 5-stage pipeline with full forwarding and a 2-way set-associative LRU cache, plus a matching assembler |
| 🔢 Digit Recognizer | a feedforward neural net written from scratch in Java — backpropagation, sigmoid activations, and a tunable hidden layer, trained to read handwritten digits 0–9 off raw bitmaps |
- 🏃 type 2 fun enthusiast — ran the taco bell 50k
- 🎲 will never turn down a board game night or a potluck
"ship it and learn" — i'd rather build something imperfect today than plan something perfect forever.
