Caffè Vivaldi has been my musical home since I came to NYC 3 years ago. It was the first place I performed in the city,
and I’ve met some of the most talented, genuine people of my life through it.
The Postpartum Project is one of the one of the largest online resource directories of postpartum specialists, with over 10k unique users per month. I had been curious about startups like Quartet and Talkspace for a while, and I wanted to explore the space in a more concrete way.
At Phosphorus, my focus was building software to analyze genetic sequencing data. I can’t share any of the
code I developed there, but I can share the process behind something I made: the logo.
In December of 2016, I recorded this original composition for Versace Eyewear with the unstoppable flamenco guitarist,
Jackson Scott. It was used in Versace’s Spring 2017 campaign.
In its 2016 “Visions of Future Shipping” paper, Wärtsilä proposed ideas that could change the way
that shipping companies operate in the future. One of the most novel ideas was ships traveling in convoy.
Researchers at MIT explain that “like birds and fighter jets flying in formation, or bikers
and race car drivers drafting in packs, vehicles experience less aerodynamic drag when they drive close together.”
For the 2017 Ports and Logistics Hackathon, we set about to take create a platform for helping
ships to form convoys for 10 - 20% in improved fuel efficiency.
For our final graphics project, Jayme Woogerd and I implemented a
configurable particle system in C using OpenGL buffer
objects, instancing, and GLSL shaders.
There is almost one gun per person in U.S., so it’s no surprise that the U.S. also has the highest incidence of gun
violence in the world. I wanted to create an interactive way of understanding the distribution of guns worldwide.
Inspired by Twitch Plays Pokemon, Ostracon is a library for real-time voting
over the internet. It used Erlang’s lightweight actor model so that each connection could be represented with a single actor.
After a certain time period, a reduce function would take all the values and compute some arbitrary aggregated value
that can be used in application logic.
Probably the best-known of all South American composers, Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887 – 1959) was
influenced by both Brazilian folk music and the European classical tradition.