Last updated: March 2026

This is a /now page. It’s what I’d tell a friend I hadn’t seen in a year.

Work

Engineering Manager at DoorDash, leading the Basket Building and Agentic Functionality team in the Grocery organization. We’re focused on building agentic shopping experiences into the app — thinking deeply about how AI can make grocery shopping more intelligent and personalized for millions of customers.

Building

  • Homelab — Migrating personal machines into my server rack to get things organized properly. Setting up automated deployment scripts for my services and building out redundant local DNS. The goal is to get the infrastructure to a place where it mostly runs itself.
  • Cortana — A personal assistant agent I’m building to help with weekly planning: taking voice notes and turning them into updated projects and tasks, managing everything in Obsidian automatically. The dream is an agent that keeps me organized without me having to think about it.
  • Writing agent — Working on an agent specifically for drafting blog posts and social media content. Still early, but the idea is to go from rough notes or voice memos to publishable drafts with minimal friction.
  • Life OS — Continuing to refine my personal operating system in Obsidian and making it more explicit and structured so it can serve as input into my agents. The clearer I can articulate how I work, the better my agents can work on my behalf.
  • Emergency binder — Built out a set of checklists for rapid evacuation. Living in the Pacific Northwest, wildfire season is a real concern, and I wanted a clear, grab-and-go reference so we’re not improvising in a stressful moment.

Learning

  • Agent development — how to architect agents, decompose them into skills, keep them current, and design feedback loops so they improve over time
  • Agent Development Kit (ADK) — my main focus for March; want to understand it deeply
  • Persisting agent memory in Obsidian across sessions and across different agents and models

Reading

Currently on the nightstand:

  • Hiking the Wonderland Trail — Applied for the lottery to get early-season access. Reading it to understand what that route actually involves. Fingers crossed.

Fun

  • Backpacking — Getting out regularly in the PNW. Most recently found a quieter trail on the east side of Tiger Mountain that I hadn’t done before — genuinely great find.
  • Golf — Recovering from a shoulder injury, but working toward getting back out for full rounds. The goal this year is more time on the course, not just the range.