the spine · a real sequence
How I got here, dated honestly
2024 — now
IBM Granite · model contributor
Working on open foundation models — data pipelines, evals, and the unglamorous correctness work that decides whether a model is actually any good. The IBM Plex Mono on this whole site is a small thank-you note.
2022 — 2024
Security research
Spam and abuse detection, Android security, the kind of work where you learn to assume every input is hostile. It rewired how I build everything else — including this site, which trusts my homelab on the same domain exactly zero.
2020 — 2022
UCSD · research lab
Where the ML and security halves first met, and where I figured out I liked the seam between them more than either side alone.
Things that don't fit on a résumé
Saxophone
Jazz, mostly at 1am, mostly badly, entirely happily.
Deep space
If a note here has physics in it, this is why.
3D printing
A Bambu in the corner, perpetually mid-job. Two cats supervise.
I explain things for a living, sort of
Mentoring, workshops, and the occasional derivation walked through slowly enough that it sticks. If you want the tooling story behind this site, that lives in the colophon.