Work

  • Dec 2025 — Present
    Databricks
    Software Engineer · Bellevue, WA

    I got a new title and level and moved to Bellevue, but “Agent Prompter” probably describes what I do better than “Software Engineer.”

  • Jun 2025 — Dec 2025
    Databricks
    Member of Technical Staff · Pittsburgh, PA

    When Databricks acquired Neon, we got a fancy new name: Lakebase. I kept working on the same storage system.

  • Feb 2024 — Jun 2025
    Neon
    Systems Software Engineer · Pittsburgh, PA

    Worked on Neon’s storage team, mostly on the storage system.

  • May 2023 — Aug 2023
    Neon
    Software Engineering Intern · Pittsburgh, PA

    Prototyped tiered compaction and worked on Prisma’s integration with Neon’s serverless SQL driver.

  • Aug 2021 — Jul 2022
    RisingWave Labs
    Database System R&D Intern · Shanghai, China

    Joined early and worked on a lot of things.

  • Jun 2021 — Aug 2021
    ByteDance
    Storage System R&D Intern · Beijing, China

    Worked on TerarkDB for ZNS (zoned namespace SSDs).

  • Aug 2020 — Jan 2021
    PingCAP
    Storage System R&D Intern · Shanghai, China

    Built AgateDB.