Featured side quests
- ahhhh.app really fresh, really fun 11x11 crosswords every saturday.
- dasavala.com a film studio where films are programs in pure lisp, powered by an F# physics engine.
- quest44.com a roguelite dungeon deduction game.
- orangensaft a satirical post-AI programming language written in Rust.
Recent engagements
- Interview with Invertbio (2025) on how AI and biology are the next big thing.
- Talk at AWS re:Invent (2019) on how we did AI at Zalando.
About Me
In the recent past, I was Head of Engineering at Zalando SE (ETR: ZAL, market cap ~€8B, >40M customers), where my team built one of Europe's first ML platforms at scale. Then, I was Head of AI at Invert (YC W22, Series A $15M), where I built AI for the biomanufacturing industry.
I have a strong academic computer science and mathematics background. I am deeply passionate about philosophy, anthropology, game theory, political science, bitcoin, quantum mechanics, world history, psychology, macroeconomics, markets, culture, cinema, and art.