$ cat about.md

# About

## whoami

Software engineer building at the intersection of hardware and intelligent software. Currently at Meta, engineering embedded firmware and C++ libraries for neural interface wristbands — the kind that read EMG signals from your arm and turn them into gesture controls for wearable glasses.

Previously at Amazon Web Services on the EC2 team, where I expanded Edge infrastructure globally and owned a service doing 60K+ TPS. Before that, Alexa Shopping, where I launched voice commerce features across international markets.

I'm drawn to the hard problems — signal processing on constrained devices, distributed systems at massive scale, making ML models actually work on embedded hardware. Whether it's shaving kilobytes off a memory subsystem or designing a system to audit live networking data, I care about getting the details right.

## engineering_philosophy

const philosophy = {
  correctness:  "First, make it work. Then make it right.",
  performance:  "Measure before you optimize.",
  simplicity:   "The best code is the code you don't write.",
  systems:      "Understand the full stack, from transistors to TCP.",
  ownership:    "If you built it, you own it. In production.",
}

## tech_stack

$ cat /proc/skills | sort -k2 -rn

[Languages]

Python █████
C++ █████
Java █████
TypeScript ████░
Rust ███░░
SQL ████░

[Domains]

Embedded Systems █████
DSP / On-device ML ████░
Distributed Systems █████
Cloud Infrastructure █████
Real-time Systems ████░

[Tools]

AWS █████
Docker / K8s ████░
React / Node.js ████░
Rust / WASM ███░░
Git █████
Linux █████
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