* music discovery and new release recommendation algorithms. I do some AI/ML, data engineering, data science, backend and web—whatever we need to make quality recommendations.

* In 2026 I'm architecting an agentic evaluation harness, building alignment across the org on a shared technical strategy, and delivering tools to improve the quality of our recommendations across multiple products, with an amazing team of AI/ML/full-stack engineers and LLM researchers

Working on the desktop client, internal web tools, recommendations pipelines and microservices for the team that does Discover Weekly, Release Radar and Discover page.

Worked with a small team to create Shortcut, an app that makes it easy to share radio excerpts as animated videos on social media: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/extras/shortcut

• Collaborate w/ developer and designers (UI, UX and motion graphics)

• Architect node.js backend w/ AWS & Serverless

• Set up mysql database and Google Analytics

• Develop front-end and mobile UI w/ React

• Develop a feature to select audio from transcript text selection

Two classes:

• Intro to Web Development

• Dynamic Web Applications