about
i've always been drawn to hard problems and the people willing to take them on. whether it was d1 wrestling at brown, building things to pay my way through college, or decoding brain signals in a neuroscience lab, the pattern was always the same - the best work happens with people who have high agency, deep skill, and a willingness to be humble and let actions speak louder than words.
at brown, i studied cognitive neuroscience and data science, writing my honors thesis on analyzing and predicting eeg signals using a synthetic testbed. the brain and ai had more in common than most people realized - both are pattern-recognition systems making sense of noise. that insight led me to blackrock neurotech, where i was a product manager for the visual applications of their brain-computer interface. bridging neuroscience, data science, and product to help build technology that gives paraplegics the ability to walk, talk, and live again was the most meaningful work i've done.
i explored traditional paths too - investment banking and consulting internships during college. it didn't take long to realize i wasn't built for incrementalism. i wanted to work on technology that felt like science fiction, with teams that moved at the edge of what's possible. that brought me to palantir, where i led deployments across aerospace, healthcare, and recruiting - working directly with customers to solve their hardest operational problems. the lesson was clear: the best technology is nothing without the right people to deploy it.
before any of that, i was working customer service in food and beverage, running my own small ventures, doing whatever it took to support myself and fund my education. those early years taught me resourcefulness and self-reliance - the same qualities i look for in the founders and operators i work with now.
today, i work in startups - founding, operating, and investing. i spend my time bringing together resourceful, driven people and helping them build something that matters.