I am currently in the middle of a life long exploration to deeply understand the intersections of complex systems and the maximization of their positive impacts on humans. To say this another way, I am of the mindset that in order for humans to build the these large systems, think of the Internet, Healthcare, or even putting humans on Mars. We must be both rooted in practical engineering and a romantic vision of an entity that has the largest net positive impact on our fellow humans. To take this farther, one cannot predict or try to leap forward humanity without accounting for pragmatic deployment of inventions or ideas. I like to call this ideology Pragmatic futurism.
if a philosophical theory does not contribute directly to social progress then it is not worth much
- https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pragmatism/-
This belief originates from over two decades of experience building, researching, and philosophizing the complex systems I interact with, live in, and want to grow.
Building Large System With Impact
The most impactful system most people think of to date is the Internet. In my role as a Senior Software engineer at Cloudflare, I help build and maintain many of the core primitives software systems that have become synonymous for the Internet. Specifically, I work on the R2 team, which is the object storage platform for all of Cloudflare's products and many impactful companies we as all use.
"Billions and billions (of logs)"
- https://blog.cloudflare.com/billions-and-billions-of-logs-scaling-ai-gateway-with-the-cloudflare/
Past technical experiences
- An original member of the engineering team at Balto AI.
- Consultant at Kicker.AI, and Utopia Labs(Recently acquired by Coinbase)
- Boeing, Apache Training Simulators
Romantic Visionary Pursuits
Recently, I have had the honor to join my friends' movie production company.
There is a currently a movie in post production that I cannot talk about too much now but please keep a look out in the future.
With that said, I will leave all of you with something I told the crew during night of filming.
All forms of Art make life worth living.
General Business
Business, engineering, and artistic ideas are extremely fascinating individually. It is when they come together to positively move humanity forward is what sparks curiosity and a sense of transcendence in me.
While not exhaustive here is a list of the various business related things I am deeply passionate about:
- Arch Grants, a non profit economic development organization to help spur innovation St. Louis, Missouri.
- Advised the technical direction and implementations for various startups in St. Louis, Missouri.
- Technical due diligence for Venture Capital firms.
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