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Mt. Lafayette looking towards Little Haystack, Franconia Ridge
Mt. Lafayette looking towards Little Haystack, Franconia Ridge, NH © Feb 2023
A Tribute to Jascha Heifetz, photomontage by James Arkatov and David Hockney
A Tribute to Jascha Heifetz, James Arkatov in collaboration with David Hockney © 1991
Mulholland Drive: The Road to the Studio by David Hockney
Mulholland Drive: The Road to the Studio, David Hockney © 1980

I was born in the US, raised in Venezuela until I was five, then lived in Boston for thirteen years. I studied at Stanford and lived in the Bay Area for five and a half years. I’m now happily back in New England.

In college I majored in Symbolic Systems with a concentration in mathematical logic. My master’s was in AI, though I also studied operating systems, networking, databases, and programming language theory.

I work across statistical modeling, data engineering, distributed training infrastructure, and inference performance optimization. Most of my work is in Python and, more recently, Rust. I like making systems run quickly, simply, and resource efficiently. The best software doesn’t get in your way.

Outside of work: playing classical violin, skiing and hiking on the east coast, tinkering, and keeping an eye on my Siamese cat.

All words are my own.

Experience

  • 2020–presentMachine Learning Engineer, AI Engineer, and Data Scientist

Education

  • 2018–19Stanford University, MS Computer Science
  • 2014–18Stanford University, BS Symbolic Systems

Open Source

  • aethergraph — Billion-scale graph sampling for GNN training.
  • ane-bridge-rs — Rust bindings for the Apple Neural Engine.
  • ccaudit — Fast Claude Code log viewer for tokens, cost, and history.
  • hasp — Workflow pin scanner and sandboxed GitHub Actions runner.
  • pgbattery — Raft HA manager and TCP gateway for PostgreSQL.
  • power-monitor — Apple Silicon power monitoring via IOKit, with TUI and menu bar app.
  • sme-gemm — SME GEMM kernels for Apple M4+.

Teaching