oss maintainer and maker of tools @ prefect
- presenting ai with data to make better choices
- building / maintaining python / LLM dev tools that do this:
prefect,fastmcp, ormarvin - responding to issues, questions, discussions, review comments, aggressive reddit or hn comments
- keyboard shortcuts
- atproto
- API design
my background
- Finding new and compelling ways to make use of our OSS offerings
- Channeling community feedback into all Prefect interfaces (API, SDK, MCP)
- Working with leadership to distill sane-default products from complex and varying enterprise user needs
- Proofing and maintaining
fastmcp(most popular python interface to MCP) - Building AI-powered systems to automate toil-rich internal tasks
- Pioneering use of PyO3 to do CPU-bound work in rust
- Designed and implemented a Celery-replacing asynchronous task queue to Prefect open-source and Prefect Cloud
- Contributed to upstream and downstream open-source projects like
pydanticandchromadb - Brought AI into Prefect Cloud
- Designed, implemented and managed open-source autonomous systems like our slackbot
- Built custom IaC, ETL, and data modeling for customers (dbt, snowflake, databricks, duckdb, prefect, etc)
- Translated business logic from leaders into maintainable / transparent data pipelines
- Implemented supporting web-apps for customers to interact with their data
- University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
- Major: Chemical Engineering
- Minor: Physics
- Alumnus: August 2020