About

My work centers on how understanding becomes intent, and how intent becomes reality.

I began by studying ideas in their historical and religious contexts, focusing on how intellectual traditions form durable institutions. I later trained in psychology and neuroscience to understand decision-making and intentionality at the individual level.

From there, I moved into technology—first in biotech, then in software—because tools are where intent is operationalized. Every abstraction layer makes execution cheaper and raises the level at which humans must specify what they actually want.

At Harvard's Human Flourishing Program, I worked on empirical research related to work and well-being, helping translate flourishing from philosophy into something measurable and testable.

During COVID, I entered housing and real-estate-related work, eventually leading engineering in that space. Housing made the stakes concrete: when intent is poorly specified, people feel it directly.

Across domains, my approach has remained consistent: clarify intent, name ends, surface constraints, and only then build.

I've been influenced by empirical work on flourishing, Catholic social thought, and philosophers concerned with practice rather than abstraction.