I currently lead Machine Learning Engineering (MLE) teams at Audible in Newark. We support engineers, scientists and internal users bringing machine learning and AI applications to production. Audible and I are both 🤩 about books, podcasts and the city of Newark. It's great! Come work with us!

Prior to Audible, I had the pleasure of growing the data function at Alloy from the ground up, where I led the machine learning, data warehousing and data analysis teams, serving models in production that identified fraud and money laundering in the financial system. I led the platform organization at Renaissance, solving interoperability and identity problems, and scaling LLMs for back-office use cases.

I'm deeply passionate about public education, and dream of a future with a more effective and more equitable systems of schools. In Newark, I had a front-row seat for a particularly bold and contentious period in school reform - you might have read about it! I started my career as a public school teacher in the Bronx through Teach for America, helped found a college prep high school in Newark, and led data, research and technology for the Newark Public Schools.

I'm a product of the University of Chicago. I live in Princeton, NJ with my amazing, talented wife Kerry and our four children.

I'm the author and maintainer of several open source educational tools, particularly njschooldata, which wraps the hodgepodge of NJ educational data into a consistent, tidy interface you can work with in R.

Ten years on, I'm still carrying a torch for google reader🪦. In the absence of the magic "share with friends" button, I'm the proprieter of weird charts, a love letter to strange and/or captivating charts that I've encountered on the web. I'm also running a podcast curation and sharing project, safe to eat.

Drop me a line at [email protected] or linkedin!