backend and AI engineer
one investigation · four pieces
Where it started. I borrowed a scoring idea from India's Fix My Itch, adapted it to the US market, and ranked five gaps that exist but are not solved well yet. The pattern underneath surprised me more than any single ranking did.
Read Vol. I →The framework started breaking the moment I kept using it. An interactive essay on why the same opportunity scores differently depending on who is reading it, with an eight-factor map you can re-weight yourself and watch the rankings move.
Read Vol. II →The thinking turned into something you can run. Tell Sift one line about yourself and it surfaces five opportunities matched to your background, scored on Fit, Why Now, and Reach. No signup, no resume upload, your data stays in your browser.
Try Sift →Where the map meets real companies. A running notebook on five B2B and AI teams whose engineering and product bets I find least obvious: Nooks, Standard Intelligence, Glimpse, Runway, and Ramp.
Read the notebook →off the résumé
Beyond the engineering life — and all the hit-and-try that has come with it — I am a serial taker of MasterClasses. The ones that stuck: Neil deGrasse Tyson, Chris Voss, and Sara Blakely.
I love to solve puzzles. Wordle and Quordle are my daily non-negotiables, and Tango and Zip are the two LinkedIn games I often find myself solving.
Away from the screen I also cook — I will quietly claim that I make a genuinely excellent tiramisu. I play pickleball, hike when the weather allows, and once jumped off a twenty-foot cliff in Puerto Rico, a questionable decision given that I did not, at the time, know how to swim.
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