MIT S.B. & M.Eng., EECS · Bridgewater Associates · Early Dropbox · Humble Audio · 0xPARC
I'm an engineer who understands the world through signals and systems. Music is where I first felt the intuition underpinning everything—feedback, resonance, time-frequency duality. The same mathematics keeps showing up in everything I've worked on: information security, trading systems, mobile platforms, audio synthesis hardware, encrypted computation.
FHE enables computation on encrypted data. An academic thread for many years, it's becoming increasingly practical for production environments. Contributing to internal tooling, and demonstrations in genomics and other domains.
Conway's Game of Life running entirely within CKKS FHE. The server computes on encrypted state and inputs, fully blind to both.
Demo may be offline—reach out if you'd like to see it running.
On the 0xPARC mission—
Founded Humble Audio and shipped the Quad Operator — A new take on Frequency Modulation synthesis for eurorack modular. The module features a one-control-per-function interface, offering the opportunity to gain a deeper intuition for how FM parameters affect results. Hardware, firmware, DSP, product design, and all the rest.
When I started making music with Ableton Live in my 20s, it was clear I was more interested in how the audio processing worked than in the actual music making. Screen fatigue was extreme—I had zero desire to sit in front of a computer after work, and lots of creative folks I talked to felt the same way. My Dropbox years gave me an immense appreciation for the challenge of making tools for users, not just doing slick engineering. I wanted to put those skills toward something I loved dearly—music. It was my opportunity to have an influence on the music I couldn't make myself. Tool-making with DSP & hardware became the way.
Resolved some tricky resource management issues in Output's Arcade 2.0.
Building on the Quad Operator, I started on a full-featured tabletop instrument—the most ambitious engineering project I've taken on solo. The hardware: Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 with five MCUs, an audio CODEC, capacitive touch sensing, and LED driving across the chip network. The software: careful Linux kernel tuning, device drivers, real-time audio DSP. This work was not released. The FM synth at the bottom of this page adapts some of it.
Co-executive produced this documentary telling the story of Bronx-born disco legend Richie Weeks' journey to reclaim control of his copyrights.
Led mobile engineering from 0 to 100+ million active users. First author of the iOS client, eventual mobile team lead with 10 engineering reports. Built Dropbox's first developer APIs. Led product and engineering for Samsung and HTC partnerships.
Worked on trading engines in Bridgewater's Account Management department, the group responsible for translating views on markets to trades that need execution. I rewrote the algorithms within Bridgewater's portfolio construction and transaction cost optimization process. This engine sat at the center of Bridgewater's trading pipeline, generating billions of dollars of orders for execution by the trading department. I also built an equity option hedging engine.
Shifted from building the systems to understanding what they were optimizing for. Portfolio analytics, monitoring and analyzing client strategic beta portfolios.
Distributed Systems with Robert Morris, Computer & Network Security with Ron Rivest, Operating Systems, Microcontroller Lab, and on and on.
Outside the classroom, I pursued interests in information security: I worked with the MIT IS&T security team (incident response and systems evaluation), interned at Mazu Networks (engineering on traffic analysis and TCP stream reconstruction), researched SSH attack propagation & proposed mitigations at MIT CSAIL, and did a master's thesis in delegation-based authorization at MIT Lincoln Laboratory.
Co-authored "Inoculating SSH Against Address Harvesting" with Schechter, Jung, and McLain at MIT Lincoln Laboratory — countermeasures adopted by OpenSSH and a major commercial SSH vendor.
M.Eng thesis: Towards a Deployable Framework for Delegation of Authority in Network Applications — fine-grained delegation of authority, dynamic library interposition, security protocol design. Advised by Stuart Schechter & Hari Balakrishnan.
Advised the founders as they established their early technical leadership.
Mentored the CTO as he began leading a team for the first time. I particularly enjoy this kind of advisory.
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FM SYNTH is a 6-operator frequency modulation synthesizer with capabilities similar to the classic Yamaha DX7. This demo is an adaptation of unreleased Humble Audio work.