My goal is to help build a better life for the inhabitants of our planet.
I'm a tinkerer, life-long learner and expert researcher who also really loves birds.
With more than eight years of technical and research experience in organic chemistry, biochemistry and molecular biology, I found that the intersection of technology and lab sciences was lacking.
Tinkering with computers and playing video games was a solid hobby since I was a child, but while working in Biotech, I'd decided to complete Codeacademy's Year of Code courses, learning Javascript and Python, and diving head first into the world of tech. I've spent the last decade (affectionately referred to as my 'Tech-ade') in roles ranging from developer and analytics engineer at early startups to a product leader at Google where I worked on a variety of productivity and AI-related initiatives in Google Workspace. Looking at the world around me, it's hard to just settle in and ignore the impact of human activity on climate, ecosystems, birds, and all of our planet's inhabitants big and small. During the last year, I joined Google's sustainability efforts as a volunteer to strategize on projects that would help people navigate extreme heat.
I believe in taking a new "career" dive every decade or so. The best way to get invoved in a new area is reflection and immersion and for that I'm on an extended life sabbatical. I'm currently levelling up my skills with a health coaching certification for one of my startups and working on a passion project called
Wonders In The World. My hope is that we can capture the beauty of nature through personal stories and pair them with the realities of climate change, showing how our favorite moments—watching a sunflower bloom, feeling the hum of a hummingbird’s wings—are at risk. Outside of that, I'm birding around the world, observing how observed and expected species vary and generally just observing. There's a lot to learn from nature.
Drop me a line if you'd like to work together, contribute to the Wonders project or have interesting conservation initiatives you'd like to discuss.