I find complex systems and build tools that make them legible. In national security, in product, and in the civic spaces where transparency matters most.

I started in experimental particle physics at Indiana University, building detector systems, writing clustering algorithms, and working on the Supernova Early Warning System. That work shaped how I think about everything else: how do you build an instrument that sees what unaided observation can’t? How do you find signal in genuinely noisy data?

From there I moved into defense energy analysis, applying the same rigor to operational energy challenges for the Air Force. The domain changed completely. The methodology didn’t.

Along the way, I kept building things. Flavrly started because nobody has solved food discovery well and that bothered me. The ALPR oversight work grew out of a single public records request and turned into something much larger.

The throughline is pretty consistent: find a complex system, figure out how it actually works, and build something that helps other people see it clearly. Whether that’s a supernova signal, an energy portfolio, a city’s surveillance infrastructure, or the best tacos within walking distance.