I'm a full-stack engineer at Stripe, a disc golf enthusiast, and I'm building The Fairway — PDGA rules AI with citations.
Jan 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 9 mos
Apr 2020 - Dec 2023 · 3 yrs 9 mos
May 2019 - April 2020 · 1 yr
From the notebook.
A fun experiment: can Jev, a classifier that picks from a fixed set of choices, behave like a traditional LLM and hold a conversation? I tried one letter at a time, one word at a time, and finally a 1,700-word vocabulary split into categories. It's clearly not what Jev is built for, but here's what worked, what didn't, and why.
Learn how to write cleaner, more maintainable TypeScript code with better import practices
This blog post shares practical tips for writing readable and maintainable React code. It covers key practices such as limiting the number of props in components, using React Context to avoid prop drilling, employing early returns for cleaner conditional rendering, creating custom hooks to manage state, and avoiding renderSomething methods in favor of functional components. The goal is to help developers write code that is easier to understand and modify, benefiting both current and future developers.
What I'm building now.