Work
- Dec 2025 — PresentDatabricksSoftware 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 2025DatabricksMember 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 2025NeonSystems Software Engineer · Pittsburgh, PA
Worked on Neon’s storage team, mostly on the storage system.
- May 2023 — Aug 2023NeonSoftware Engineering Intern · Pittsburgh, PA
Prototyped tiered compaction and worked on Prisma’s integration with Neon’s serverless SQL driver.
- Aug 2021 — Jul 2022RisingWave LabsDatabase System R&D Intern · Shanghai, China
Joined early and worked on a lot of things.
- Jun 2021 — Aug 2021ByteDanceStorage System R&D Intern · Beijing, China
Worked on TerarkDB for ZNS (zoned namespace SSDs).
- Aug 2020 — Jan 2021PingCAPStorage System R&D Intern · Shanghai, China
Built AgateDB.