I'm a software engineer and educator growing Owner.com.
I'm an expert self-teacher who highly values ownership and radical transparency.
I work with kind, diverse teams to build products that help our customers and society.
Recent accomplishments
Bench Accounting Team Automate
Developed LLM-based categorization assistant to guide customers through categorizing according to tax rules, which auto-categorized 230,000 transactions using customer conversations within 3 months, equivalent to ~30,000 months of human bookkeeping or 37% of the work done by specialized human teams in the same period.
Earned Bench's Impact Award, celebrating "outstanding performance" and making a "huge impact toward achieving our mission".
Bench Accounting Team Initialize
Contributed to overhauling the client app using React.js, delivering improved performance, better accessibility practices, and a better UX to 25,000+ customers.
Bench Accounting Training Team
Created a communication training program for bookkeepers that outperformed learner-reported quality metrics by 24%.
Latest posts
Working with me documents
How to write, structure, and share documents outlining your needs from colleagues, as well as the benefits of writing them.
A geometric pattern generated from a hash of the post Never let a candidate bomb
Sharing my most-strongly held principle for interviewing. How it helps, why you should do it, and how to practice it.
A geometric pattern generated from a hash of the post Effective remote work communication patterns
A reflection on some of the patterns I've found most effective for remote and asynchronous teams.
A geometric pattern generated from a hash of the post Stop using the word transaction
A short argument that in the context of bookkeeping, transaction is an unhelpful term.
A geometric pattern generated from a hash of the post Zod hot takes
A series of hot takes I've accumulated from several years of religiously using Zod.
A geometric pattern generated from a hash of the post Write heavy, read scarce
As AI exponentially increases how much we write, reading will become the in-demand skill.
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