A decade in technology, an upbringing in the land it sits on, and the work in between.

I grew up spending summers helping my grandfather turn depleted farmland back into native forest and prairie. Long days of clearing brush, digging waterways, and reintroducing species that hadn't lived there in generations. It taught me earlier than I knew what it was teaching me: that landscapes can be rebuilt, that systems have memory, and that the work of repair is mostly patience.

The decade after college took me somewhere different — eight years at Amazon, working on the systems that coordinate physical operations at scale. I helped launch the technology behind Prime Now, scaled standardization across 1,000+ employees in Amazon's Central Operations org, and led the team that automated planning for over a billion dollars in flexible labor a year. Good work, hard work, and I am genuinely proud of it. But I never stopped thinking about land.

So I went back to school. I just finished a Master's in Civil & Environmental Engineering at Berkeley, with a focus on energy systems, grid flexibility, and climate-resilient infrastructure. The pivot isn't really a pivot — it's a return to the questions I started with, with a decade of building scaled systems now in the toolbox. I'm interested in what happens when we apply the operational rigor of modern technology to the slower, more permanent work of physical infrastructure.

Outside the work I shoot landscape photography (some of it in The New York Times and Ski Magazine), I cofounded a social-tech startup in college that hit ten thousand daily users, and I built and now help run a community of outdoor-loving colleagues that's grown to four thousand members. I played four years of varsity soccer and track at Chicago. I'm still, somewhere underneath all of it, the kid trying to figure out how a clear vision and a little hard work can transform a landscape.

If any of this resonates, please get in touch. The work, the photographs, and a longer version of me live in the navigation above.