About
The longer version.
Okay, so this is the longer version if you aren't bored so far. Tbh, I still don't know what my exact title is at my ‘day job’—I'm on the Infrastructure Engineering team, which means I help keep the systems behind products and services up, secure, and running smoothly.
I don't have a traditional background. I've moved between engineering, system design, medicine, and research. I do what I need to do and what interests me.
It's hard to sum up what I do every day in one line, but it's never boring. I've previously worked at CB Insights, Rubenstein Tech, and Meetup.
I became an EMT in New York State in 2022. In 2023 I went to paramedic school to go a step further—then I dropped out after almost acing the first semester. Will I go back? TBD. For now it's a DNF (did not finish).
I realized I'm passionate about hands-on, in-the-moment problem-solving in medicine—the kind you see in the field—but I had little interest in the more theoretical side. (It matters, just not for me.)
When I'm not in the city, you'll find me running on the Hoboken waterfront, eating at Qdoba, or at the Hoboken library hoarding books.
I try to stay active in a steady way. Running is a big part of that for me, and I also bike, swim, row, and spend time with weights. Nothing to show off about; I am in the same camp as anyone who takes health seriously and wants to keep showing up, vary the work a little, and not let long gaps become the habit.
I have a bachelor's in computer engineering and a master's in cybersecurity, plus a bit of emergency medicine. I'm fluent in three languages and butcher another three. I believe in open-source: sharing work that might help someone else facing the same kind of problem.
Most days I'm firing on all cylinders; some evenings it's comfort food from Uber Eats and a rerun of Flash or White Collar in bed. And some days I'm just winging it, questioning everything, including my purpose.
Causes I care about and support: internet privacy, health care, immigration, and animal welfare.
Doctors bury their mistakes. Lawyers put theirs in jail. Architects put theirs on display. Infrastructure engineers expose theirs to the world—one misconfiguration or overlooked flaw can mean outages, breaches, or services going down for millions. So we try not to mess up.
Exhibit A: Cloudflare DNS outage (TechCrunch)
Exhibit B: Microsoft/CrowdStrike outage (NBC)
Exhibit C: How one programmer broke the internet (QZ)