About

"Bench to bedside" describes the journey of taking an idea from basic research to actually impacting patients, and that's roughly been my path: biology undergrad, biotech masters, then a decade working across different layers of healthcare including data infrastructure, clinical research, scientific publishing, direct-to-consumer, and patient care.

I grew up in Wisconsin and Arkansas, then moved west for school and kept going from there. San Luis Obispo, San Francisco, Seattle, New York. The throughline has mostly been finding work that felt meaningful.

I've gotten more technical over time, partly because technology is how you scale impact, but also because I don't think you can be effective in product without understanding the actual constraints (the architecture, the tradeoffs, why certain things are hard). I want to understand how things actually work before I have opinions about them.

Right now I'm on sabbatical, building AI tools and figuring out what's next. A small group of people are pushing these tools to their limits, but I don't think anyone fully knows what they can do yet. AI might be powerful enough to overcome historical barriers to learning, skills, and access, and let more people build. I'd like to help make that happen.