Building, in one form or another, has been the through-line of my life. From ideas to education, software to companies, communities to steel, the medium keeps changing but the work doesn’t.
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Democracy Dashboard
The Democracy Dashboard is a set of political analysis tools and visualizations designed to identify critical races, candidates and legislation that advance the functioning of democracy.
I built this to support the allocation of resources and effort to the highest impact areas of the political landscape and to help those campaigns and legislators with their work.
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Hank the Bus
Hank is a Brazilian 1970 classic split-window VW bus which is being converted into a mobile music platform that runs as an electric vehicle on repurposed Tesla battery modules.
This is a chance to revisit my mechanical engineering roots and to better understand power systems and electrification while crafting a piece of community art.
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NEAR Protocol
NEAR is a layer one protocol supporting usable and privacy-preserving web3 apps and agentic ecosystems that became decentralized in 2019 and continues today.
We built NEAR as scalable, user-owned infrastructure for the open web: a protocol layer where applications are composable, privacy-preserving and resistant to capture by centralized platforms.
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The Odin Project
The Odin Project is a community of tens of thousands of people who are learning to program via an open-sourced curriculum. It was created in 2013 but is still maintained by independent moderators today.
I started the project to explore the effectiveness of peer-to-peer education that could deliver job-readiness at scale.
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Viking Education
The Viking Code School was an online coding bootcamp where students didn't have to pay unless they got a job. Viking was acquired in 2017 by Thinkful.
I started Viking to empower career-switchers from around the country to access software engineering jobs regardless of their location, prior education or ability to pay.