About Me

My goal is to help people build more trustworthy and reliable software.

It’s clear that code has become a killer use case for generative AI, lowering the barrier to software creation in an unprecedented way. The big open question: how do we ensure that people are able to deploy software safely and responsibly? I work in the Security organization at Meta towards solving this problem.

Previously, I ran Engineering, Product, and Design for Postman Insights, Postman’s API observability product. I got there via the acquisition of my startup, Akita, where we developed a state-of-the-art approach for automatic API observability using Berkeley Packet Filter (BPF).

I have a PhD in Computer Science from MIT, with a focus on programming languages. Before starting Akita, I was a tenure-track professor at Carnegie Mellon University. Read The MIT Tech Review’s 2016 “35 Under 35” profile of me here.

Other

During the pandemic, I co-produced two Zoom-to-Twitch reality shows, Zoom Bachelorette (covered by CNN here) and Zoom Bachelor (covered by Forbes here).

I am a member of the San Mateo County Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Commitee.