Host of Chain of Thought · Head of Technical Ecosystem at Modular · Angel Investor
By day, leading technical ecosystem at Modular, where we're building the Mojo programming language and MAX inference platform. Before that, developer ecosystems at Galileo and LinearB, enterprise consulting at Microsoft, and a career in political organizing before any of it.
- 🎙️ 50+ episodes of Chain of Thought shipped
- 💰 Angel investor in AI infrastructure, dev tools, and robotics
- 🎲 Avid Twilight Imperium and Age of Empires II player, former chess team nerd
- 📫 Best way to reach me: LinkedIn
Chain of Thought is a podcast about AI infrastructure and the people building it. Guests include Chip Huyen, Logan Kilpatrick of Google DeepMind, plus leaders and founders from NVIDIA, AMD, Databricks, Poolside, Liquid AI, Fireworks, Vercel, and many others.
- What Atlassian's $1B DX Acquisition Means for the Developer Productivity Market
- The Rise of Tireless Digital Employees
- 2024 Is the Year GenAI Code Hits Adolescence
- The Problem with Perfectionism
| Repo | What it does | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 🔥 | modular/modular | Mojo language + MAX inference platform (contributor) |  |
| ✍️ | avoid-ai-writing | Claude Code skill that audits and rewrites content to remove AI writing patterns |  |
| 📰 | substack-mcp | MCP server for Substack, read posts and manage drafts |  |
| 📧 | gws-mcp-server | MCP server exposing Google Workspace CLI as Model Context Protocol tools |  |
| 🧩 | claude-context-starter | Personal context repo template for Claude Code |  |
| 🏰 | aoe2-troop-calculator | Age of Empires II army composition calculator |  |
I write $1-10K checks into early-stage companies, mostly AI infrastructure and dev tools. More on my thesis here.
| Feature Companies | What they do |
|---|---|
| Substack | The world's publishing platform |
| Zaapi | AI customer service for e-commerce |
| Iris | Consumer AI assistant (YC F25) |
| DreamForge | AI game creation platform |
| Scam.ai | Deepfake detection |
| Swytchcode | AI solutions engineer for API integrations |
| Shield | B2B stablecoin payments |
| Haply Robotics | Industrial robotics and haptics |
| Trilobio | Lab automation robotics |
| Stride Soles | DTC custom orthotics via AI scanning |
| Rad Intel | AI marketing platform |
| YC Orange Fund F25 | Diversified YC batch fund |
My first time in a command line was part of a 2007 era high-school project refurbishing PCs for computer labs throughout Latin America, which rapidly evolved into making websites for old Runescape clans.
