I'm a VP of Engineering at Carta, where I lead a team of engineers responsible for the company's architectural and strategic decision-making. Previously, I built Carta's Data & Machine Learning organization, scaling the team from 2 in September of 2019 to 30+ by the end of 2020.

Before Carta, I was a Senior Engineering Manager on the Search, Learning, & Intelligence team at Slack, and 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.