Hello, I am a fourth year math graduate student at Colorado State University.

In my past life, I was a software engineer at Coursera, helping to make education accessible to all.

Personal

I grew up in the frozen tundra of Calgary, Alberta. Then I worked in Silicon Valley up in the San Francisco Bay Area for 6 years prior to coming to graduate school for mathematics.

Outside of math, I like to drink coffee, play hockey, ski, bike, and run (trail and road). I also enjoy playing and studying poker theory.

Writing

Most of my writing are not publically available, but throughout the years, some have been published on Coursera’s tech blog.

• Categorizing learning content From hand-coded to an algorithmic approach
• The Evolution of Coursera Search: Enabling Product Innovation Through Technical Innovation
• Webpack 3 to 4: Facing the known unknowns and unknown unknowns
• An engineer’s perspective on engineering and data science collaboration for data products
• How Amazon CodeGuru Profiler helps Coursera create high-quality online learning experiences
• Getting Started with Amazon Redshift
• Coursera boosts search speed tenfold

Presentations

• Fast Solutions to Simultaneous Sylvester Systems - As part of the Tensors Algebra-Geometry-Applications 2024 conference, I presented on an algorithm for solving tensor equations.

• Quick solvers for endomorphisms of modules. - As part of the Groups, Nilpotence, and Tensors 2023 conference, I presented on ideas to solve Simultaneous Sylvester Systems - systems of matrix equations of the form XA_i + B_iY = C_i.
• The big tent of functional programming - As part of the Applied Category Theory Seminar at Colorado State University, I presented on the core idea behind functional programming - using types and data flow to program.
• Option Data Type - As part of the Applied Category Theory Seminar at Colorado State University, I presented on the Option data type in Scala, a commonly used monad in functional programming that allows for composing failable operations.
• Dependent Types with Pie - As part of the Applied Category Theory Seminar at Colorado State University, I presented on the dependent type programming language Pie.
• Kan Condition for Simplicial Sets - As part of the ACATs seminar, I presented on how to compute with simplicial sets, a generalization of simplicies, which themselves generalize triangles. In particular, unwrapping the category theoretical definitions and the strong/weak Kan conditions to understand how they provide a useful model for higher categories.
• ACM/ACM-W at CSU presentation - I presented to the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) and ACM-Women groups at Colorado State University about interviewing for a technical position, drawing on my previous experiences as an interviewer and designer of interviewing questions.

Teaching

• SP22 - Math 160: Calculus for Physical Scientists I
• FA22 - Math 101: Math in the Social Sciences
• SP23 - Math 101: Math in the Social Sciences
• FA23 - Grad TA for Math 560: Linear Algebra
• SP24 - Math 155: Calculus for Biological Scientists
• FA24 - Math 101: Math in the Social Sciences

Papers

Hopefully in due time :)