My background spans hardware and software, from digital design and firmware to helping bring open-source silicon to production. What drives me is taking ideas all the way to working silicon.
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Updated October 2026
Ricursive Intelligence
Member of Technical Staff · since September 2026
Applying AI to shorten the long, manual loops between chip design, verification, and bring-up.
Learning
- AI for silicon development.
- Memory-safe languages and how they work with secure hardware.
- Running zero-to-one projects, both inside big companies and at startups, and how the leadership tradeoffs differ.
Outside work
- Lifting and running.
- Family time, two cats, and some guitar when I can.
- Trying to stay grounded while everything around AI moves so fast.
2016 – 2026
Senior Staff Software Engineer
- Wrote the OpenTitan security architecture and served as the project’s overall technical lead.
- Helped bring open root-of-trust implementations (Titan, OpenTitan, Caliptra) to production across data centers, ChromeOS/Chromebooks, and Pixel.
- Built the Titan provisioning infrastructure that roots Google’s hardware-based attestation.
- Started in Borg SRE, working on fleet-wide machine lifecycle management.
2011 – 2016
Intel
Senior Software Engineer
- Embedded security features for the Converged Security and Manageability Engine (CSME).
- Led the redesign of the chipset firmware image tooling, including code signing and manifest generation.
- Started in graphics, building power-management validation tools on emulation and simulation.
2007 – 2011
Motorola
Digital Design and Firmware Engineer
- Designed FPGA, DSP, and high-speed interface hardware for 4G wireless infrastructure.
- Wrote 4G PHY control-plane firmware on an RTOS, and supported factory bring-up.
Education
Columbia University · Stony Brook University
MS, Computer Science · BE, Electrical Engineering