Bio

I built my first website at the age of nine, the same time I discovered my passion for science.

During my time in college, I taught in the student-run Decals. I was co-instructor for the Bookworlds course Lost Gods and course coordinator for the 150-student Meditation, Mysticism, & the Mind course. I was also senior cook in my 64-student housing co-op, preparing meals for the house on a weekly basis and exploring a variety of world cuisines.

Summer internships have included studying the genetics of cytomegalovirus in Mocarski Lab at Stanford, building websites for TriDigital, and doing market research and building an intranet website for SRI Biosciences.

I went on to graduate from UC Berkeley in 2009 with a major in Psychology (Biological), focusing on the neuroscience of stress disorders.

For the next year, I worked full-time for TriDigital as project manager, before taking an operations job with Ness Computing (acquired in 2014 by OpenTable).

Freelance contract work also included a six-month stint at Gigster in 2016-2017. There, I worked on the Customer Success team, troubleshooting problem projects and adjudicating conflict resolution situations between product managers, clients, and headquarters alike. Additionally, I wrote the large majority of a ~100-page internal wiki as a company user manual and managed the wiki team.

Meanwhile, since 2013, I have been a science journalist for Healthline, writing health news and feature-length stories. I'm enjoying writing science news for them today!

I enjoy reading, running, going on road trips, and pushing my cooking to new limits. I now live in Sunnyvale, CA with my wife, two cats, and ball python.