Professional: Software Developer in C++/Java/Python/Perl (hoping to add Scala soon) and Research Scientist in Computational Linguistics. Working with Hadoop and HBase for several years to compute with and store large datasets, learning about Spark and Mesos for better scalability. Working with statistical models of language to do Machine Translation since 2004, looking towards Deep Neural Networks for the future.

Personal: Family man, man of science and reason, man of faith and compassion. Trying to be a "skeptic" and a "believer" at the same time, and live by "Be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to get angry." I trust God, but not always his followers (or myself). Aspiring to think carefully about what I believe, listening to my feelings without being ruled by them.