I work on the Search, Learning, and Intelligence team at Slack.

Before joining Slack, I was the founder and CEO of , a software startup backed by NEA and Andreessen Horowitz. I hold a PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University, and BS and MS degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

In a previous life, I worked at , , and , and taught at both Stanford and UC Santa Cruz. Many years before that, I graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, in Alexandria, Virginia.