About Me

I grew up in southern New Jersey, but I’ve been calling Austin, TX home since I first came here to start graduate school in 2008. I studied black holes and dark matter for my thesis, and received my PhD in astrophysics in 2014. Shortly after I started a career as a data scientist working for a local startup named Square Root. I like hiking, playing softball and volleyball, and I really enjoy good food and craft cocktails. I recently picked up photography as a hobby.

The original title of this blog was “The Wannabe Data Scientist”, since I started it while I was looking for my first job. Having been gainfully employed now for 3 years, that title had a bit of a different connotation so it had to go. Once I stopped being a “wannabe” data scientist I took a break from posting, but I couldn’t stay away for too long. I plan on (semi) regularly updating the site with new posts, while at the same time trying not to laugh too much at my old non-PEP-8 code.