Welcome to the latest installment of our ‘Meet the Team’ series, where we introduce Rogo employees and share insights into their backgrounds and experiences. Interested in joining the Rogo team? See our openings here.

Bio

I’m one of the engineers on the AI Search Team.

I grew up in California and went to Stanford where I studied computer science with a concentration in artificial intelligence. In college I interned for some small tech startups, at the VC firm GSV, and conducted AI research with professors in the Graduate School of Business. I was also on the club basketball team and the philanthropy chair for the chapter of my college fraternity. After graduation I worked at Weights & Biases, a startup crypto hedge fund (not that one), and an AI workflow automation company before joining the Rogo team in August 2024.

As a kid, I played a ton of sports and video games with my favorites being basketball and fallout respectively. I am a proud evangelist of YouTube premium and binge video essays on everything from musicology to geopolitics. Some of my favorite channels are 3Blue1Brown, Adam Neely, Alex O’Connor (formerly “Cosmic Skeptic”), polymatter, F.D Signifier, GothamChess, and No Boilerplate. 

Nowadays, I spend most of my free time training Brazilian jiu-jitsu, singing the death metal band SUNDEATH (@sundeath_nyc on instagram), and hanging out with my dog Billy. I also love all things alternative music: everything from pop-punk and emo to blackgaze and slamming brutal death deathcore and will happily make folks an intro playlist on request.

Some more random fun facts:

• I’ve officiated two weddings

• My first babysitter went on to become a billionaire

• I am learning portuguese

Q: What excites you the most about working at Rogo?

I’m most excited about building state of the art technology with some of the smartest, hardest working people I’ve ever met! So many AI companies these days are just branded wrappers around ChatGPT so it has been awesome to work on such a deep technical product in such an exciting space.

Q: What surprised you most about working at Rogo?

To be honest, it was how much I loved my colleagues and our work culture. Having worked in tech and finance before I’ve experienced the pros and cons of the typical work cultures and personality types those two industries attract. I can honestly say that Rogo is my dream cultural blend. We have the professionalism and ambition of finance and the egalitarian, nerdy culture of tech.

Q: What's your favorite part of the Rogo platform?

If I remove the bias I have for the parts of the platform I directly work on, I’d say Rogo’s UX and design. The platform truly is a beautifully designed product with a wonderful UX experience. Our head of design Chris is an absolute beast. I truly think he could even make submitting reimbursement claims to insurance exciting if he put his mind to it.

Q: Tell us about what you like to do outside of work.

Besides the whole “I like trying new restaurants and hanging out with friends,” I love going to standup comedy and smaller live music and arts shows in the city. One thing I love most about living in New York is that when you see something cool on social media, some sort of performance or something, there’s like a 75% chance it is currently or will soon be in NYC.