I'm a software engineer at Google working on the Search team. My work focuses on expanding and optimizing Google's content index for AI retrieval, enabling state of the art models to surface the best information to answer any question while ensuring grounding and factuality.
Previously, I served as technical lead for Google's personalization and contextual awareness platform. My work in this space started with the initial launch of personalized maps and place suggestions in Google Maps.
Before joining Google, I founded Zinepal, a simple publishing service for creating eBooks and printable PDFs from web articles. It allowed individuals, businesses, and government organizations to repurpose their existing content to reach new audiences. Early in my career, I also worked at two startups in the bioinformatics and medical device fields.
I was born and raised in Germany before moving to Victoria, BC, where I finished high school and attended the University of Victoria. After university, I spent a few years in Vancouver before moving to the United States, living in San Francisco and Seattle. I now live in Santa Monica.
You can contact me on LinkedIn.
In 2014 I hosted Dr. James Shapiro at Google to speak about the latest advances in islet cell transplantation and stem cell technologies for the treatment of diabetes. Here is the recording of Dr. Shapiro's talk on the Talks@Google YouTube channel.
I used to blog occasionally. Here is one of my more useful blog posts on backpacking with diabetes.