Making things fly —
digitally and physically.
Software engineer with a decade-plus shipping Android and AI-integrated apps at scale, now pursuing entrepreneurial work. Equally at home in code, in the cockpit, and under an airframe — instrument-rated pilot and hands-on builder of an experimental aircraft. I'm drawn to hard problems that cross software, hardware, and the physical world.
Apr 2026
Tech Lead Manager
- Eng manager and lead IC across a portfolio of Pixel apps — Google Clock, Google Calculator, Pixel Recorder, and Pixel Weather — driving roadmap planning, cross-functional prioritization and feature feasibility, and delivery timelines, while staying hands-on in engineering design and owning features as an IC.
- Led Pixel Recorder's public Play Store debut and its on-device AI — the first on-device LLM feature shipped at Google and a phone-industry first — partnering with Google DeepMind and several Pixel teams to run Gemini Nano entirely on-device, summarizing recordings fully privately with no network — work recognized with a Google Tech Impact Award.
- Drove Pixel Weather's public launch, differentiating it from entrenched incumbents with a distinctive interactive weather map, more accurate data, a more intuitive at-a-glance reporting display, and AI-generated weather summaries.
Jan 2021
Software Engineer
- TL of the Android Settings team: architected a Settings item-injection system — adopted by virtually every Android OEM — that lets manufacturers fully customize the Settings UI and information architecture for their own branding while staying CTS-compliant. Much of the work is public in AOSP.
- Founded Settings Intelligence — a closed-source Google binary that ships on Pixel to bring AI-powered features to the open-source AOSP Settings app.
- Founding engineer on the Personal Safety app (Pixel-first, now across the Android ecosystem): emergency calling, real-time location sharing with emergency contacts, and medical-info sharing when help is needed.
- IC on the Google+ Android app: worked on code restructure for performance and modularization, and helped launch the Collections feature.
Dec 2013
Software Development Engineer
- Built web-based tooling enabling merchants to create and manage product listings.
B.S. Computer Science, Mathematics & Economics
- Graduated with Highest Distinction · Distinguished Senior in CS.
Computer Science
- Completed first-year studies before transferring to Purdue.
SquawkIt
Aircraft-maintenance logbook for pilots and owners. Tracks inspections, service bulletins, squawks, and engine hours across a whole fleet — local-first and offline-capable, with on-demand PDF reports for pre-buys and annuals. One Compose Multiplatform codebase shipping to Android, iOS, and the web.
Sling TSi Build
N532SLA hands-on, multi-year build of a Sling TSi experimental aircraft with a Rotax 915iS engine — 1,000+ hours over three years and counting. One of the most demanding things I've taken on, drawing on aviation hardware, automotive-derived powerplant systems, electronic and avionics engineering, hands-on fabrication and mechanics, and the piloting skills to test-fly what I build.