About

My ambition is to spark understanding and reflection to enhance collaborative agency globally.

Maps are blank canvases, the contours of which we get to fill with pins and color arrows to tease out and express ideas. Curious dotted lines revolve existence around a jotted journey to examine ourselves and the world around us. An idiosyncratic mosaic of human knowledge beckoning shared narrative and cooperative vision.

Data engineering unlocks intuitive cartography. To that end, I build data tools to enable others to peer into the world, share ideas, and communicate science.

As a data engineer and National Geographic Explorer, I transform mountains of complex data into clear, accessible visual narratives. My work aims to prompt reflection that ultimately provides insights and agency for researchers, conservationists, and professionals to drive meaningful change.

Over the last decade I've worked on projects ranging from water desalination in Kenya with TBI (field engineer), mapping hydrology risk at Lotic Labs (first hire), population movement at Estornuda.me (founder), Big Data pipelines at Astronomer.io, object detection in satellite imagery at GeoML (founder), and serverless Python to build with data at Fused.io (founding engineer).

Throughout, I strive to empower others to peer at the world with an analyzing, comprehending eye and communicate impactful narratives with data to inspire collective action.

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