Me

In my personal life, I’m a husband and father of two. My wife runs a publishing company, and has written several books. In my “copious spare time”, I’m usually running.

Work

On the professional side, I’m currently a Software Engineer at Google. I’m currently on the Colab team, and I’ve worked on several projects here, including BigQuery, apitools, and TensorFlow.

Before starting at Google, I was a number theorist. I finished my PhD in 2009 at UCLA under Haruzo Hida, and soon I’ll get some papers and whatnot linked here.

Projects

• Actually updating this webpage. Still in progress.

• I’ve helped maintain the bigrquery R package, and I wrote an initial version of what became gargle.

• I added support for R to Travis-CI, first as a shim at runtime, and later as an official language (blog post).

• I spent several years heavily involved with Sage. I haven’t had much time to write any code in Sage lately, but I did help William get funding from Google Research to fund SageMathCloud development.