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I've been fortunate to collaborate with fantastic teams at small startups and large corporations: as the lead engineer at Bot & Dolly; as a staff software engineer at Google X; and, most recently, as head of software at the cloud robotics startup Formant. I hold a computer science degree from Brown University and briefly taught computer science in Shanghai... In 2019, I was a keynote speaker at ROSCon, where I spoke about technical opportunities in disciplines adjacent to robotics. I've also given talks at Pixar and various industry conferences, and discussed observability on the RealWorld DevOps podcast... Having worked with visual artists, architects, storytellers, and fabricators, I see my expertise as one tool among many. My hope is to work with the most talented and creative people I can find: I believe that meaningful, original, exciting ideas live at the frontier between technology and other disciplines. Technology for technology's sake is, at best, tedious; technology in..