Hey folks! I'm Rob.
I’m most excited about building technologies and organizations to empower growth and maximize fulfillment, and I try to do this through my work with startups. I’m an extreme techno-optimist and believe we can engineer our way out of the biggest problems we face. I observe that competitive markets are the greatest progressive force we’ve yet invented and that nothing motivates teams’ excellence like combining prosocial mission with wealth creation.
I live in New York City, am good at speaking in accents, bad at not burning my mouth, and when I was five made cold calls selling electric fences to neighbors in case the dinosaurs came back. I’ve always liked games (esp. KOTOR, BioShock) and have never liked chocolate. I love sundays. My wife, Tori the Great, is the most resilient and compassionate person I know. Our son Landon is wise beyond his months.
These are the jobs I've had:
- Co-builder of MGraph (current!)
- Data-focused advisor and coach to early-ish stage companies (current!)
- Data leader @ Citizen
- Builder of Gatherscope, Challe
- Caregiver
- Data and strategy person @ Uber
- Digital media analyst @ NFL
- Econ researcher
- Ski instructor
- Dish washer
- Landscaper
These are some things I enjoy:
- Business analysis and strategy
- Data science and engineering
- Software engineering
- Economic engineering
- Infrastructure, in every sense
- Human-product interaction
- Human-human interaction
- Education
- Health sciences and healthcare
- Sci-fi and world-building
- Games and VR
- Skiing
- Biking
- Stand-up comedy
- The New England Patriots
- The Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula One Team
These are the data-related technical skills I have so far:
Data science:
Classifiers, clustering, experiment design, neural networks (MLPs, RNNs, GANs, RL), NLP (language models, summarization, translation), recommender systems, survival models
Data infra:
Customer data platforms (Segment), cataloging/discovery (Atlan), ETL (dbt, Fivetran, Stitch), experimentation platforms, ML ops (feature versioning, feature stores, model versioning, etc), reverse ETL (Census), warehousing (BigQuery, Snowflake)
Software languages:
JavaScript / TypeScript, Python / Cython, SQL, Swift
Here's where else you can find me:
