about this blog

you’ll find posts concerning my musings on the following topics:

• public health, especially sexual health
• the startup founder journey
• technical things I learn along the way
• op-eds such as ai vs. human-generated work
• emerging technology such as zk-proofs, ai, and quantum computing

about me

I’m a typical techie located in San Francisco currently in my early 30s and delightfully homosexual. I became a self-taught engineer after dropping out of a mostly failed attempt at preparation for law school because Apple recruited me from the stores to the big spaceship. After Apple, I got a job at GitHub (the best place I’ve worked) but left because Microsoft aquired them (for obvious reasons). What followed after GitHub was a few other big names that would bore you and some crypto companies that would cause you to eye-roll so I’ll spare you the details. Thanks to being raised by a social parent, people generally tend to like me. That means I progressed through my career in hocky stick fashion, from engineering, to recruiting, to program management then product management. I ended my career working for other people as an engineering leader but thanks to a confluence of events, a good idea, and too many STIs, I am now the founder of status.health which is focused on reducing STI transmission rates and healthprotocol.network which is the infrastrcutre that powers status.health and other health-based applications.

contact

Feel free to email or one can find the rest of my links at links.97115104.com.