me with one of my favorite foods: rotisserie chicken
I got into engineering because I needed to understand how the physical world actually works. In middle school I blew the fuse box at my parents' house chaining plug adapters into the wall. They've since forgiven me.
Math and science pulled me in as the rules underneath everything. Certain laws just can't be broken, and once you have that framework it transfers to almost any problem. I think about foundations: materials as the building blocks of the physical world, energy as the building block of modern technology. Nobody glamorizes either field, but everything runs on them.
I spent four years building a deep tech hardware company, doing the scrappy engineering work but also running the thing: fundraising, product strategy, sales, supply chain, building a team. I'm an engineer at heart and want to stay close to what's being built, but I'm not only an engineer anymore, and I think that's made me better.
When I'm not working: endurance running, playing guitar (I have a vintage '63 Mustang with pickup switches that need resoldering, naturally), and a probably unhealthy interest in MMA. I love the outdoors as long as there's no snow. Bad at small talk, great at hard problems.
Georgia Institute of Technology (i'm a wrambling wreck!)
BS Aerospace Engineering
MS Materials Science (dropped out of the PhD. no regrets.)