My Ten Year Vision for the World
In ten years, I want to see a world where...
Writing on software design, company building, and the AI / smart city industry.
All of my long-form thoughts on programming, leadership, product design, and more, collected in chronological order.
Aerbits Architecture
A deep dive into the Aerbits platform architecture.
Lessons from Each Stint in My Career
At each phase of my career, I learned valuable lessons, and here they are chronologically.
Project Zoolander: Navigating the Integration of Trulia and Zuora: Enabling Market-Based Pricing by Zip-code
In my tenure at Trulia, I played a pivotal role alongside two other engineers in the successful implementation of Trulia's innovative market-based zip-code and impression-based pricing model. This article delves into the technical challenges we encountered and the invaluable lessons we gleaned along the way.
Embracing AI in Job Interviews: My Experience with ChatGPT
Actively interviewing? It's increasingly likely interviewers are OK with you using ChatGPT to help you answer questions.
Rebuilding Premier Agent CRM from the Inside Out
In 2016 I returned to Zillow to rewrite the Agent CRM in React and GraphQL. This is the story of how we did it.
Thread of Software in my Life
How I got into software and how I've used it to build a career and a life.
Generate SF @ APEC
We were invited to exhibit Aerbits.ai at GenerateSF, a conference hosted for the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) in 2023, in San Francisco...
Article: Diverse Dumping in San Francisco's Neighborhoods
I've been playing around with the 311 dataset in hopes of understanding what's causing my neighborhood to be so dirty. I've found some interesting trends, and I'm sharing them here.
Accelerate SF Conference
I spent two days of hacking to accelerate the recovery of San Francisco. Government officials including the Mayor, the City Attorney, and three Supervisors all gave their wish list. Among the top city issues was the issue of street cleanliness.
Patent Application Published: for aerbits's core technology
Nearly a year ago I began the journey of formalizing aerbits's intellectual property. Today, I am proud to announce that the USPTO has issued a patent for our core technology.
Aerbits OKRs for Q4 2023
At the encouragement of my wife and friends, I spent two days on a "company retreat" working out Aerbit's Q4 Objectives and Key Results.