I’m an engineer and startup guy interested in cloud infrastructure, databases, computer vision, and AI. Find me on X and LinkedIn.
After spending several years building computer vision systems for Perceive, a company I co-founded in 2016 with funding from the National Science Foundation, I’ve transitioned into growth roles at Arctype and Vantage. My goal is to further develop my sales and marketing skills and eventually found another computer vision or AI company.
I still prefer a more technical approach to growth that you might call growth engineering and have stayed focused on a technical audience through my writing and open source work.
Work
Work History
- Head of Growth at Vantage
- Marketing at Vantage
- Joining Arctype
- Open Sourcing Perceive
- Becoming a Pioneer
- Perceive funding announcement
Projects
- Maintainer of ec2instances.info
Writing
Idle thoughts on a variety of topics at pid.vc. Selected blogs:
- Databricks vs Fabric
- Cloud Costs Every Programmer Should Know
- clickhouse-local vs DuckDB
- Optimizing Large Language Models for Cost Efficiency
- Save by Using Anything Other than a NAT Gateway
- Programmatic Messaging with Customer.io
- Hooks: The Secret Feature Powering the Postgres Ecosystem
Media
Podcasts
- Microsoft Fabric vs Databricks: Should Databricks be Worried? (Nov 2023)
- Cutting Costs in the Cloud (May 2023)
- Cloud Cost Optimization for PostgreSQL Infrastructure (Jan 2023)
- Spatial Intelligence Software (May 2020)
Talks and Interviews
- The State of Encryption in Postgres (April 2022)
- Using PlanetScale Branches with Arctype (Nov 2021)
- Perceive Alchemist Demo Day (Jan 2020)
- Using Docker in the Cam2 Project (May 2016)