01
Heavy manufacturing
Domestic US industrial capacity — the physical base everything else depends on, and the least glamorous place to rebuild.
LLMOps & Applied AI Engineer · SF Bay Area
I ship agentic systems end to end.
Currentlydeep in neuro-computation
Agent design, retrieval, eval harnesses, and the deployment and observability that keep them running in production.
01 — Now
What I'm on
Building
Agentic systems at HeadOn: user matching, message testing, and the telemetry behind both.
Running
Staging and deployment for a seven-person team.
Watching
Neuro-computation, and building autonomous agent harnesses.
Open to
Founders, investors, and anyone shipping applied AI.
02 — Work
The path so far, in order.
2025 —
Present
2025 — Present
Applied AI Engineer / LLMOps · SF Bay Area
HeadOn
Agentic matching lifted average conversation time 227%. Shipped a message-testing tool now used by a DC think tank.
2025
2025
Technical Member of Staff, Growth Lead · San Francisco
Wrodium
Scaled to $200K+ ARR in three months. Most Innovative Startup at Berkeley SkyDeck.
wrodium.com→2025
2025
Writing · thesuperoptimal.com
Super Optimal
Essays on AI, neurotech and industry.
thesuperoptimal.com→2022 — 2025
2022 — 2025
Co-founder & Investor · Berkeley, CA
Blackskies Ventures
Berkeley’s largest AI startup ecosystem: 100+ founders, 9 YC alumni, $200M+ in follow-on funding.
2022 — 2023
2022 — 2023
Event Manager · 501(c)(3) nonprofit
Garuda Hacks
Largest hackathon in Southeast Asia: 2,350+ participants, 45+ countries.
2021 — 2025
2021 — 2025
B.A. Statistics · B.A. Data Science
UC Berkeley
BAIR lab volunteer. President, Berkeley Indonesian Students Association.
03 — Thesis
Where I'm looking next.
Three industries I track closely, write about, and want to back.
02
Neuro-compute
Neural interface technologies and the compute stack underneath them. The layer between brains and machines is still wide open.
03
Biotech
Adjacent biotech advances that compound with both of the above.
Publications
thesuperoptimal.com↗04 — Projects
Things I built that have been useful.
All repos on GitHub↗HeadOn · internal
CTO Digital Twin
An MCP-backed twin of our CTO. Handles 70% of the team’s PRs.
HeadOn · shipped
Message testing harness
Agents simulate voter personas to score and rank message variants.
In progress
Tokenizer
A tokenizer built from scratch. Currently in progress.
05 — Off the record
Rooms I've been in
06 — Movies
Eight films, no ranking.
I will argue about all of them. Ordering them against each other is a losing game, so here they are flat.
Inglourious Basterds
Tarantino · 2009
The tavern scene is a masterclass in how long a director can hold a room before the table flips.
Casablanca
Curtiz · 1942
Every line is quotable and not one of them is showing off. Still the cleanest ending in film.
Mrs. Doubtfire
Columbus · 1993
A film about a man losing his family, played at full volume so you do not notice it breaking your heart.
Dog Day Afternoon
Lumet · 1975
Pacino turns a failed robbery into a street rally. Nothing else captures a plan collapsing in public this well.
La La Land
Chazelle · 2016
The epilogue does what most films spend three acts avoiding. It tells you the truth.
Silence
Scorsese · 2016
Scorsese with nothing comfortable left in the frame. Faith stripped down to the part that costs something.
The Big Short
McKay · 2015
Makes contempt entertaining for two hours, then hands you the bill and makes you sit with it.
Ratatouille
Bird · 2007
Anyone can cook. Ego’s closing monologue is the best thing ever written about criticism, in a cartoon about a rat.
07 — Books
Mostly one world.
I read widely and then come back to Westeros anyway.
A Song of Ice and Fire
Martin
A political novel wearing a fantasy costume. Every chapter is somebody misreading the room and paying for it.
Fire & Blood
Martin
History written by the winners, then annotated by people who think the winners were lying. The best part is the disagreement.
The wider Westeros canon
Ongoing
Dunk and Egg, the appendices, the arguments. I am in the sphere, not just the series.
Calendar open
Always down to meet cool people.
Grab 15 minutes on my calendar. Founders, investors, engineers, or anyone building in manufacturing, neuro-compute or biotech.
Google appointment schedule
The live booking grid embeds here. Drop the appointment-schedule link into CALENDAR_URL and it wires itself in.