oss maintainer and maker of tools @ prefect
- responding to issues, questions, discussions, review comments, aggressive reddit comments
- building and maintaining python / LLM dev tools like
prefect,fastmcp, ormarvin - presenting ai with data to make better choices using the above
- keyboard shortcuts
- bsky and/or atproto
- API design
my background
- Worked with product leaders to distill sane-default experiences from complex user needs
- Co-authoring and maintaining
fastmcp(the most popular python interface to MCP) - Expanding and aintaining the open-source Prefect SDK and server components
- Building AI-powered systems (NLIs + RAG etc) to extend teams within the organization
- Working with leadership and marketing to improve our digital footprint and outreach
- Pioneering use of PyO3 to defer CPU-intensive work to a faster, more efficient runtime
- Synthesize the bleeding edge of AI tooling to adopt maximally efficient in-house solutions and practices
- 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 - Designed, implemented, and maintained prefecthq/marvin (OpenAI ripped off our DX)
- 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