Last updated: July 4th, 2026
Me, approximately.
Hi, I’m some guy! I graduated from UC Berkeley where I double majored in Computer Science and Data Science, in the College of Letters & Science, and received a Bachelor of Arts. I previously worked on platform engineering, distributed computing, observability, and container orchestration at Anyscale. I am working on infra at Surge AI. In my freetime I enjoy doodling with my fancy printer, reading (I recommend Vonnegut, Ted Chiang, and Terry Pratchett), and playing competitive Pokemon.
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FAQs
What’s with the background image for this site?
Can machines think?
How did you get into programming?
What does your middle initial stand for?
What’s with the background image for this site?
That’s a picture of Berkeley’s Campanile, with a few rounds of primitive run on top of it to try to approximate it using geometric primitives. I personally really like the aesthetic, though I’ll admit without looking closely it kind of seems like a blown-up low fidelity JPEG.
Can machines think?
“Can submarines swim?”
― Dijkstra
How did you into programming?
In high school I was relatively clueless about what I wanted to do in terms of career. I knew I wanted to some sort of STEM-related field, but I wasn’t sure which one. My junior year I took the AP courses for CS and Chemistry, and really loved both of them! Unfortunately for chem, it was a lot easier to tinker with programming than it was with mass spectometry on my own time, and so I ended up leaning towards computer science.
Admittedly, APCS is kind of useless in terms of preparation of Berkeley (and I imagine many other school’s) CS curriculum. In my opinion of CS courses “handhold” a bit too excessively. The most educational periods of my time during high school were spent trying get to simple graphical games to display and run at 30 FPS relying solely on StackOverflow, compiler vitriol, and Java’s standard library documentation. This is the kind of suffering that the department of education and parts of the constitution forbid, but I suspect that kind of struggle working on a personal project builds a level of independence that many undergraduate or high school courses aren’t able to provide.
I also had some background in competition math, which teaches a lot of intuition and practical problem solving skills that you really won’t get in a classroom.
This in particular really hits home for me:
See the third quote in the “What is our purpose?” section for more on this.
What does your middle initial stand for?
Potassium.