Now

Working on

Week one at Google DeepMind, building AI Studio — the developer experience for Gemini. Prompt playground, full-stack app creation, making frontier AI accessible to anyone who wants to build with it. Learning everything, meeting everyone, drinking from the firehose.

Learning

Applied Cryptography at NYU for my MS in Cybersecurity. The math is genuinely beautiful — there's something deeply satisfying about proofs that feel inevitable once you see them.

Moving

Training for the Chicago Marathon (October 11) and NYC Marathon (November 1). Two marathons in three weeks because apparently I don't believe in rest days. Still exploring NYC on foot — it's the best way to actually see this city.

Building

Tend — a habit tracker meets friend CRM. Because I kept forgetting to check in with people I actually care about, and that's embarrassing.

Reading

• Madly, Deeply — Alan Rickman's diaries (slowly, savoring)
• Too many half-finished sci-fi novels on my Kindle

Playing

Guitar — still very much a beginner. Missing piano, don't have one right now.