About

As of this writing, I have been alive for thirty-nine years and change. I’ve been working for Red Hat since 2015 when my employer since 2010, The Cohort of Great Success, was bought. Before that I worked for the Computational Linguistics and Information Retrieval laboratory at the University of Michigan.

I was also at the University of Michigan before that, studying mathematics, music, and linguistics. The most amusing bit of research I ever did was an optimality-theoretic study of how the phonology of ones first languages influences onomatopoeia of newly encountered animal cries.

When I was young, I wanted to be all sorts of things. When I was very young, I wanted to be a garbage man because they got to live at the dump and spend all day taking the things they picked up apart for fun.

When I was a late tween/early teen, I was fascinated by the operating system on my Apple II and fiddled with the file system. I read all about systems programming and, for a while, wanted to be a systems programmer when I grew up. Now I am one, and I like it quite a bit.

My professional interests include functional programming, twisting programming languages to do things that non-idiomatic, and making things fast, capable, and clean.

My unprofessional interests include writing, singing, freeform roleplaying games, music that nobody else likes, mathematics, constructed languages, and a whole boatload of other things.