I'm Managing Partner & CTO at Moonfire Ventures 🌗🔥
Previously, I was:
- Artificial Intelligence Advisor - UK Government Office for Science
- Machine Learning Architect - Workday
- Machine Learning Research Engineer - Mila
- Co-Founder & CTO - Kolide
- Software Engineer & Engineering Manager - Facebook
- Senior Software Engineer - Etsy
- Security Engineer - iSEC Partners & Gotham Digital Science
I maintain a growing ecosystem of open-source software for biological engineering across compilers, robotics, data infrastructure, machine learning, and formal methods. My focus is the infrastructure layer that can help make DBTL cycles more precise, repeatable, scalable, and increasingly autonomous, working toward a future in which biological laboratories operate more like data centers do today
Lab Automation
- The Lab Compiler - a compiler toolchain for describing biology and orchestrating work in the laboratory
- opentrons-protocol - a Rust implementation of the Opentrons JSON protocol format, with typed authoring and construction-time validation
- hamilton-star - a Rust implementation of the Hamilton STAR/STARlet liquid-handling robot's firmware command protocol and its USB transport
- byonoy-hid - a Rust implementation of Byonoy's USB HID protocol
- inheco-sila - a Rust implementation of the Inheco SiLA 1.x SOAP protocol
Data Infrastructure
- sbol-rs - the Rust implementation of the Synthetic Biology Open Language (SBOL)
- sbol-db - a high-performance database for synthetic biology data
- flapjack-data - a storage-agnostic, Flapjack-compatible measurement domain model for synthetic biology characterization data with pluggable storage backends
Formal Methods
- crnt-lean - a Lean 4 formalization of Chemical Reaction Network Theory (CRNT)
- grn-lean - a Lean 4 formalization of Gene-Regulatory Circuits in the Hill-Kinetic ODE Perspective
Machine Learning & Simulation
- CellModeller2 - a GPU-accelerated multicellular modelling framework with independent implementations for Apple Metal, NVIDIA CUDA, and the CPU
- ATCG-FM - a research workspace for genomic foundation models
- synbio-torch - a PyTorch library for synthetic biology and biodesign machine learning
- quiver - a machine learning library for the diverse design of gene-regulatory circuits
- I created and open-sourced osquery while working at Facebook in 2014.
- Osquery has since become a foundational tool in the information security and monitoring industries.
- Osquery is actively used by thousands of companies all over the world to detect and respond to security threats, data breaches, and other critical incidents.
- I’ve been using Kubernetes in production since 2016.
- I was a member of the Kubernetes core contributor team from 2018 until 2021 where I served on the Release Team for four releases as well as participated in several Working Groups and SIGs.
- I led my team at Kolide to build and operate what was one of the largest Kubernetes clusters in Google Cloud’s GKE at the time.