About
I currently work at WarpStream, part of Confluent, helping build a diskless, Kafka-compatible streaming platform on object storage. I joined about a year ago as a distributed systems engineer.
Prior to that, I spent a year and a half on Confluent's Compute Platform team, working on the Kubernetes-based platform that powers Confluent Cloud.
I joined Confluent from 37signals, where I interned on the Security, Performance, and Infrastructure (SIP) team as part of their 2023 summer intern cohort - it's where I was inspired to build pzip after running into performance bottlenecks in the Basecamp export pipeline.
My path into software wasn't a straight line. I started out as a trainee patent attorney at D Young & Co in the City of London, prosecuting UK and European patent applications relating to computing and electronic devices - charging circuits for EVs, software-defined networking, distributed databases.
And before law, I studied Physics at the University of Warwick, researching the orbital dynamics of planetary remnants around white dwarfs, published by the Royal Astronomical Society, for which I was awarded the Seymour prize.
Along the way, I was also a campus ambassador for Norton Rose Fulbright, and interned at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer.