Community
Engineers, researchers, and founders, in the same room
I bring engineers, researchers, and founders together to learn from working systems and build new ones. I've hosted more than 50 events, co-host and MC BayForge gatherings, and organize through 2% Tech. My work includes programming, speakers, partners, builder onboarding, and live demonstrations.
Events hosted
Attendees at Frontier Signals #01
Attendees at Frontier Signals #02
Attendees at other events and hackathons I helped organize
Attendance across my independent and company community work.
What I do at an event
The work behind a room that is worth showing up to
Programming and speakers
Shaping the agenda and lining up speakers who can teach from systems they have built.
Partners and venues
Working with partners on space, logistics, and the details that make an event run on time.
Builder onboarding
Getting new engineers and founders into the room and connected to people working on similar problems.
Live demonstrations
Running demos on the night, where the system either works in front of people or teaches everyone why it did not.
Series and organizations
Where I host, co-host, and organize
Frontier Signals
A Bay Area event series bringing engineers, researchers, and founders together. I hosted the first two editions, which drew 250+ and approximately 200 attendees.
Frontier Signals #02 on LumaBayForge
Bay Area builder gatherings. I co-host and MC: programming, speaker lineups, partner coordination, and live demonstrations on the night.
2% Tech
A community I organize events through: programming, partners, and onboarding new builders into the room.
Hackathons
Mentoring and judging student builders
HackMIT 2026
Mentor and judge
CompletedHackHarvard
Confirmed engagement
ConfirmedCalHacks
Confirmed engagement
ConfirmedTreeHacks
Confirmed engagement
ConfirmedResearchers
More working researchers in the room
The events I run are better when people who are actually running experiments are in the room. If you work on retrieval, agent evaluation, or reinforcement learning and want to present early results to builders who will push back, I would like to hear from you.
My own research is on evidence-grounded RAG, agent evaluation, and self-improving systems. You can read the published papers and in-progress studies on the research page.
Workshops, research discussions, builder collaboration
If you want to run a workshop, discuss research, or collaborate on something you are building, email me or reach out on LinkedIn.