About

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I’m the founder and CEO of Nuanced, a YC-backed company building an AI coding app that helps people understand the software they create.

I spent 7 years at GitHub, where I was a Senior Software Engineer. I built and scaled security infrastructure, rewrote notifications, shipped GitHub Projects, and helped build Semantic, an open-source library for cross-language code analysis. I developed its Template Haskell library to generate precise, strongly typed ASTs for new languages.

I also built APIs at Dropbox, led product strategy for classroom adoption at Khan Academy, and prototyped Cortana at Microsoft with Microsoft Research.

I was an invited speaker at Facebook’s Big Code conference in 2019, served on the PLDI 2020 MAPL program committee, and published an essay on human-centered developer tools in CACM and ACM Queue.

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I earned a bachelor’s in Systems Design Engineering at Waterloo, specializing in Intelligent Systems and graduating as valedictorian. I developed a new machine learning technique for malware detection during my graduate studies in Computer Science at Oxford.

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I build tools that help people reason about software, combining technical rigor with an understanding of how people think. My interests span computer science, mathematics, psychology, and linguistics.

I take inspiration from literate programming, Memex, Xanadu, TheBrain, and NLS.

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I live in San Francisco with my family where I’m figuring out motherhood and rap-battling my cat, Mixtape.