I am a

Data Engineer

helping lead the way of modern data orchestration at Dagster.

Previously, I worked at Gemini building the future of finance, and before that at Georgetown University's Massive Data Institute building data warehousing and processing solutions to help social scientists and researchers more easily leverage large-scale organic data.

Technical Interests

Developer Tooling
Programming Languages
Web Development
Data Engineering
Embedded Systems

Air Quality

I am a founding member and technical adviser to Globally Unified Air Quality, a startup aimed at providing low-cost solutions for measuring and analysing air-quality conditions around the world.

Consulting

I worked as a technical consultant for financial institutions and government agencies in the Washington, D.C. area, providing guidance on identity and access management, and data warehousing solutions.

blog posts

Using pinentry-mac to sign commits from vim-fugitive

May 11, 2024

In order to sign git commits from within Vim using a plugin like tpope/vim-fugitive, it is necessary to configure the gpg-agent to use a GUI based pinentry-program.

Easily Transcribe Podcasts with Whisper.cpp

January 8, 2024

If you've ever had the need to transcribe a podcast, lecture, or some other audio recording, it turns out it's surprisingly easy with the extremely impressive whisper.cpp project. This high-performance fork of OpenAI's Whisper can run on all sorts of hardware -- including my M1 Mac Mini. Let's walk through an example from start-to-finish of transcribing an episode of the Alter Everything podcast.

How To Add an RSS Feed to a Nuxt Website

January 6, 2024

If you are a user of Nuxt Content and you wish to configure an RSS feed for your website, it's a surprisingly straight forward process! In this article, we will walk through the code changes required to host an RSS feed for both a statically generated, and Universal Nuxt application.

Impressions of Fennel with Hammerspoon

October 22, 2023