About Me

Shorter version

Engineer, artist, programmer, mathematician, photographer.

Also, freelancer for hire; find me on LinkedIn, Facebook, or IRC.

Longer version

I’ve been using computers to create things since I realized that this was possible. I had the good fortune to have a computer at age 6 and an older brother who showed me MS-DOS, POV-Ray, NeoPaint, and BASIC. This, combined with video games like Doom, drove my early interest in graphics, 3D rendering, and programming.

This progressed to an interest in mathematics, algorithms, and programming language theory. I also got a digital camera in late 2003, and added photography to that list. Since then, I’ve been fascinated with the use of algorithms that create and transform images - for the sake of visualizing data, creating art, image processing, and computer vision. (The use of algorithms for creating and transforming sound also fascinated me, and I read and dabbled extensively here, but my utter ineptitude at music put a damper on this.)

I studied electrical engineering at University of Cincinnati, and while there was a co-op at Etegent, continuing there full-time when I graduated in 2010. I did some interesting work there combining software development and research around signal processing, image processing, and computer vision.

While at UC, I happened into some cinci2600 meetings and eventually became a founding member of Hive13. I’m regularly found there, and on occasion give talks.

Around 2014 I moved to a startup, Urbanalta, and here I designed PCBs and wrote embedded software. This is where I started using Haskell more intensively on the embedded side, eventually co-creating HaskellEmbedded and the Ion library. I regularly attend CincyFP and occasionally give presentations, such as this one.

I am now studying for a masters in computer science (specializing in machine learning) at Georgia Tech. I’m also freelancing in the area of electronics and embedded software, but open to other areas: software development, photography, rendering, computer vision, computational photography, machine learning.

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