From investment banking to coding bootcamp to Y Combinator, I've made a career out of learning fast and making complex things simple. I sold my first startup Pyroscope to Grafana and now focus on growth at Grafana Labs—specifically growing the newest additions to our product suite and our new AI products.
I've made a career out of learning fast and making complex things simple. Whether it's building a profiling database from scratch, reverse engineering AI prompts to understand how to make them more efficient, or navigating YC fundraising as a first-time founder, I believe in getting something working and improving it from there.
Accepting that the first version will be the worst removes failure anxiety and gets you started
Sometimes the best investment isn't in what you learn, but in who you learn with
Some upfront thinking saves hours later, but always bias toward action and iterating quickly
Exploring the intersection of product thinking, AI innovation, and design philosophy
Built the same crossword app twice. Bad prompt took 6+ hours, good prompt took 40 minutes. Prompt engineering is actually a real skill.
The whole story of getting acquired. Careful early planning, negotiations in fancy vegas hotels, leverage dynamics, and why it was actually the smart choice (not giving up).
Game theory thinking saved us at every step. Valuation psychology, investor motivations, acquisition dynamics. Understanding what people actually want.
Building Pyroscope meant solving a hard computer science problem. How do you profile code continuously without killing performance?
Side projects became my secret weapon for learning and getting unstuck. The constraint of one weekend forces you to ship something.
Built an AR lens in 10 minutes just to see if I could. Turns out Snapchat Lens Studio is way more powerful than I expected.
Honest take on Hack Reactor after working in tech for two years. The real value wasn't what I expected.