I’m an engineer passionate about building a better future with technology.
To be human is to use technology, and tech can help us build the world we envision. However, if the goal of developing tech products does not include addressing social needs, technology will benefit a small few. I aim to include a diverse coalition of perspectives in the process of envisioning, designing, and implementing systems that make the world a better place and are feasible with current economic incentives.
I have always enjoyed taking things apart to understand how they work. When I was a kid, I helped my dad build computers for our family. At the time I had no idea how any of it worked, just clicking in the RAM stick when he told me to. But in high school, after those computers had become obsolete and replaced by laptops, I took them apart and combined all the best components into one computer that was the first machine that I programmed on (incidentally, it was also the first one I could game on).
Human systems aren’t so simple. Understanding how people, groups, and institutions work is hard even when they tell you exactly how they work, let alone when the impacts take decades to emerge and require thorough, contextualized investigation to identify. Technology itself is a social system, though. Medical breakthroughs extend life expectancy, increasing the time people spend working, thus changing economic conditions. Highways reduce the time people need to spend travelling and allow them to work in cities but enjoy living in suburbs. Yet the same highways increase the rate of single-passenger cars and lead to traffic that normalizes a stressful commute.
I am working towards building a better future with technology. Not every step along the path is clear how it’s related, but they’re all part of the journey.
Interests
Triathlon
Cycling
Photography