My name is David. I have a lot of interests, but mostly I just like to figure out how the world works.
I began my professional life as a US Sailing–certified instructor at Longshore Sailing School. Once I finished school, I went to work at a small federal contractor in the world of cybersecurity. After a brief stint as a quant at a hedgefund, I worked at startup called ThreatKey to help companies manage the overwhelming prospect of keeping their cloud and SaaS environments configured securely. During that time, I also helped show tourists around the San Francisco Bay on a 2003 America’s Cup boat (USA 76). I then went to Apple, where I did some contract work organizing data for their financial analysts and forecasters.
In case it’s not obvious, this is a personal blog. Everything I write here is my own opinion.
Projects I’m proud of
- A dataset of subreddits served by r/random that I created to prove to myself that it wasn’t very random at all. blog post
- A toy dataset about an imaginary railroad company’s trip and customer data. github
- A visualization of the DOJ’s antitrust cases over time. blog post
- dinkind: Dagster in Kubernetes in Docker
- Fuzzy Store: A probabilistic key-value store