I help technical founders build AI-native products, teams, and companies.
AI founder-operator and Partner/CTO at Embedding VC. I bring research depth, scale-system experience, and founder scar tissue to help early-stage technical teams move faster on the things that matter.
Four pillars
Research Roots
NLP, ranking, and information retrieval at USC/ISI, Penn State, and Microsoft Research Asia. TREC 2011 Best System award, 10+ papers.
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Scale Operator
Built Snap Discover personalization to 200M+ daily viewers. Led 80+ person engineering org. Ads systems at Google with sub-10ms latency.
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Founder Scar Tissue
Founded Youpi, raised from top investors, built a 12-person team, launched 10+ AI consumer products including Realm AI and Synco AI.
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Founder Enabler
Partner/CTO at Embedding VC. Helping technical founders build AI-native products, teams, and companies.
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Current frontier work
Areas I'm actively studying, building, and investing around: GenAI creative tools, Physical AI and robotics, LLM foundations and evals, AI-era recruiting, agentic workflows, and venture studio formation.