About

I’ve been asking two questions for most of my career and it took me a while to realize they were different. The first: “what can I learn from this data?” That one keeps me grounded. The second: “what is life doing that this data can’t teach me?” That one keeps me up at night.

I lead platform architecture at Lantern Pharma, where my team built withZeta.ai to accelerate drug discovery for rare and resistant cancers. I run Attune Intelligence, bootstrapped and self-funded, because that second question can’t survive a grant cycle. All of my published work is compiled under research. The thinking behind it is in my writing.

I’m also a certified RYT-200 yoga and breathwork instructor, which started as a counterweight to screen time and turned into its own line of inquiry about embodied intelligence.

2024 – Present Lantern Pharma

Lead Platform Architect & Staff Engineer

Dallas, TX. Joined as Senior Data Engineer and built the data infrastructure for what became ZETA. Now Lead Platform Architect & Staff Engineer, owning the full agentic intelligence layer on top of the established data foundations. ZETA is live, onboarding clinical researchers, and actively informing drug synthesis for rare cancers that traditional pharma won't fund.

2023 – Present Attune Intelligence

Founder

A self-funded independent research lab and sole-proprietorship for engineering consulting. The first paper, "What Lives?", with Michael Levin, Blaise Agüera y Arcas, and Karina Kofman turned 68 expert definitions of life into a continuous conceptual topology. The consulting funds the hardware. The questions drive the work.

2023 Praxis AI

Generative AI Engineer

Remote. Built the Generative Intelligence Engine powering Pria, a generative AI teaching assistant. 2 American Business Awards in 2023: GOLD for Achievement in Online Training, BRONZE for AI in EdTech. Built and taught the Foundations of AI course, which took GOLD for K-12 Learning Management. Built DevOps pipelines for dynamically scaled AWS deployments.

2021 – 2023 Etiome (formerly Flagship Labs 84)

Research Associate, Computational Biology & AI

Cambridge, MA. The first software engineer hired into what became Etiome, building core computational biology infrastructure from scratch. Applied ML to electronic medical records and single-cell RNA-sequencing data to map how molecular heterogeneity shifts as disease progresses. The higher the resolution, the more the mechanisms of disease resisted the explanations biochemistry could offer. If the pathways I was modeling were transistors, there had to be a programming language flipping them.

2021 DNAnexus

Product Management Intern

Remote. Wired together bulk RNAseq tools (STAR, Kallisto, DESeq2) into a single cloud-deployable pipeline. Worked across sales and engineering on productizing genomics workflows.

2019 – 2021 Clemson University

M.S. Biomedical Data Science & Informatics

Clemson, SC. Cancer genomics research at scale: deep learning for precision medicine, gene expression matrices, and bioinformatics pipelines on Kubernetes. Published in Cell Patterns, BMC Bioinformatics, G3, and BMC Cancer. TSPG (co-first author, Cell Patterns 2020) was a GAN-based method that learned the transcriptomic perturbations needed to shift a patient's gene expression from a tumor state back toward healthy tissue, applied at single-patient resolution to kidney cancer. Presented at the NIH Cancer Moonshot Symposium (Bethesda, 2019) and Internet2's Technology Exchange Conference.

Summer 2018 Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Undergraduate Research

Singapore. Polymeric drug delivery systems: how to engineer a molecule's path through a biological membrane. The first real encounter with biology as an engineering problem, and the first hint that biology was doing something far more interesting than what my instruments could measure.

2016 – 2020 Clemson University

B.S. Bioengineering, Concentration in Biomaterials, Minor in Genetics

Clemson, SC. Undergraduate research in cancer bioinformatics. Where the computational biology path started.

Ongoing RYT-200 Yoga & Breathwork

Certified Instructor

The body is a distributed intelligence system. It processes, integrates, and responds in ways that don't route through conscious awareness. Working with breath and somatic practice is one way to study that directly. (It also helps with the 10-hour desk days.)