I’m a Visiting Researcher at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, collaborating with Emery Berger. I work at the intersection of software engineering, programming languages, and AI, building tools that make developers’ lives a little easier. Before returning to research, I spent several years in industry, most of them as co-founder and CTO of Port25 Solutions, where I helped build PowerMTA, a widely used high-performance email infrastructure platform. I also provide consulting and advisory services on software engineering, AI, and developer tools.

Here are some recent 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 received the Best Student Paper Award at SIGIR 2023, and Scalene received the Best Paper Award at OSDI 2023.

Much of my work has focused on improving the efficiency and reliability of software systems. As an undergraduate, while working at a center responsible for handling email infrastructure, I started experimenting on my own with ways to make the system more efficient. The software I developed eventually allowed us to replace systems running on mainframes with ones running on discarded workstations, reducing the cost and effort required to operate the infrastructure. Those experiments laid the foundation for PowerMTA and Port25 Solutions. Today, my research continues along a similar theme: creating tools that help developers build software more efficiently and reliably.