I recently completed my PhD at UMass Amherst (CICS, PLASMA lab, advised by Emery Berger). My research focuses on programming languages and software engineering, building tools that make developers’ lives a little easier. I’m currently exploring new opportunities.

Here are some projects I’ve led or contributed to:

I serve on the Program Committee for CppCon, the C++ conference and review for the Proceedings of the ACM on Software Engineering (PACMSE). Our Visual Question Answering paper also received the Best Student Paper Award at SIGIR 2023.

I returned to research after several years working in industry, most of them as CTO of Port25 Solutions, a company I co-founded. Our product, an email server named PowerMTA, was hugely popular because of its performance and stability; it also helped pioneer standards such as DKIM and IDN. When my company was acquired, I served for a few years as SVP of Research and Development. That line of work actually started with research: as an undergraduate, I worked for a center tasked with handling email; I started experimenting to make things more efficient, and that eventually led me to PowerMTA.

Years ago, for my Master’s thesis, I dove into network security and wrote an intrusion detection system for protocol-borne attacks on the DNS.