Builder, Founder, Occasional Philosopher
Self-taught AI engineer with a philosophy degree, three startup war stories, and a climbing obsession in Utah.
Philosophy → Code
Went from Aristotle to training neural networks without a CS degree. Turns out they're not that different.
Startup Veteran
Worked at three companies, each one stranger than the last. I am still not quite sure which was the strangest.
Climber, Skier, Utahn
England, Connecticut, Ireland, San Francisco, Salt Lake City. Ended up here for a job. Stayed for the mountains.
The Story So Far
Where I've been and what I built there.
Co-Founder & CTO
Platik
Built an AI thinking partner for high-stakes decisions — not to give answers, but to help people ask better questions. The thesis is more relevant now than when I started. Shipped products, validated the idea, and haven't stopped thinking about it.
Director of AI
Banjo
Architected a real-time AI system processing millions of signals per second across a city-scale sensor network. Scaled the team through a Series D unicorn valuation. There's a lot more to this story — I'm writing about it on Substack.
Founding Engineer
mi|im
Built cm-accurate 3D tracking systems with millisecond precision for major US retail deployments. Genuinely impressive technology. A masterclass in the gap between great engineering and a functioning company.
Writing & Perspectives
I write about how systems actually work — and why they usually don't.
Background
Where I came from!
EDUCATION
Trinity College Dublin
B.A. PPES (Philosophy, Poli Sci, Econ, Sociology)
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