Personal Bio

I was born in St. Paul, MN, and grew up in South St. Paul, MN. I attended the University of Georgia for college (class of 2020), and Stanford University for my PhD (graduated 2025). I married my wife Johanna in 2022 in the botanical gardens of Athens, GA. We live in New York City with our son (born 2026).

My wife and I are Christians. We worship at Central Presbyterian Church in NYC.

Family History

I descend from Croatian, German, and Italian immigrants to Minnesota and Wisconsin during the post Civil War and Ellis island era immigration waves. Both my grandfathers served in the US military: my mom's dad served in the Army in World War II, and my dad's dad served during peacetime as a Navy airplane mechanic.

Johanna's ancestors include English Quakers who settled Pennsylvania in the 1600s, French Huguenots, and Dutch pirate Jan Janszoon, whose son Anthony Janszoon van Salee beat us to New York by nearly 400 years.

Past Work

In summer 2024 I interned at Citadel (EQR) and worked on alpha capture. In summer 2023, I interned at Virtu and worked on several projects for the options market-making desk. In summer 2022, I interned with Amazon and helped improve the average delivery speed of packages shipped through Amazon's in-house air logistics network.

I worked at Epic as a software developer on the central data science team. I was developer lead for an infrastructure project to make it easier for hospitals to improve the configuration of their installation of Epic.

I wrote my master's thesis on convolutional neural networks for demosaicing. I built models that exploited redundancies across films / bursts of images to improve reconstruction quality. The thesis is available for download here.

In college I interned at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York for a summer, where I worked on mapping out systemic vulnerabilities in the Fedwire settlement network. This work made it into a Fed report.

I spent a summer researching valuation models for options on volatility indexes with Worcester Polytechnic Institute’s financial mathematics REU.