/past preoccupations

I was an engineer at Facebook working on what I hoped to be the future of payments. See novi.com or diem.com for more info.

Some recent favorites: Hackers & Painters and Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World.

One thing I learned the most from in university was not a class, but an open-source community! I enjoyed participating in OpenMined, which builds open-source code for privacy-preserving deep learning.

Can the limited compute power of a Raspberry Pi Zero handle a convolutional neural net to do facial authentication for a large database of users? I made that answer be yes. Check out my GitHub repo here and stay tuned for a live demo endpoint on this site (on the backlog).

Some of my favorite university courses were Advanced Cybersecurity, Bioinformatics, and Machine Learning Tools. They each used a good textbook and allowed project freedom.