Host of Chain of Thought · Head of Technical Ecosystem at Modular · Angel Investor
By day, leading technical ecosystem at Modular, where we're building the Mojo programming language and MAX inference platform. Before that, developer ecosystems at Galileo and LinearB, enterprise consulting at Microsoft, and a career in political organizing before any of it.
- 🎙️ 50+ episodes of Chain of Thought shipped
- 💰 Angel investor in AI infrastructure, dev tools, and robotics
- 🎲 Avid Twilight Imperium and Age of Empires II player, former chess team nerd
- 📫 Best way to reach me: LinkedIn
Chain of Thought is a podcast about AI infrastructure and the people building it. Guests include Chip Huyen, Logan Kilpatrick of Google DeepMind, plus leaders and founders from NVIDIA, AMD, Databricks, Poolside, Liquid AI, Fireworks, Vercel, and many others.
- Block Cut 4,000 Jobs and Blamed AI. The Truth is More Complicated.
- He Built an AI Coworker to Run 90% of his Day
- What Atlassian's $1B DX Acquisition Means for the Developer Productivity Market
- The Rise of Tireless Digital Employees
- 2024 Is the Year GenAI Code Hits Adolescence
- The Problem with Perfectionism
| Repo | What it does | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 🔥 | modular/modular | Mojo language + MAX inference platform (maintainer + ecosystem lead) |  |
| 📊 | agent-leaderboard | Open framework for benchmarking LLM-based enterprise agents |  |
| ✍️ | avoid-ai-writing | Claude Code & OpenClaw skill that audits and rewrites content to remove AI writing patterns |  |
| 🛠️ | claude-code-skills | Session management, reconciliation, recovery, and skill scaffolding for Claude Code |  |
| 🎯 | ai-tools-for-creators | Curated AI skills, MCP servers, and workflow tools for creators |  |
| 📚 | ai-learning-resources | Curated learning path from "what is AI?" to building with Claude Code |  |
| 📰 | substack-mcp | MCP server for Substack, read posts and manage drafts |  |
| 📧 | gws-mcp-server | MCP server exposing Google Workspace CLI as Model Context Protocol tools |  |
| 🧩 | claude-context-starter | Personal context repo template for Claude Code |  |
| 📊 | cot-bench | Lightweight open agent evals framework |  |
| 🔄 | wrekenfile-converter | File format converter for Wreken spec (Swytchcode) |  |
I write $1-10K checks into early-stage companies, mostly AI infrastructure and dev tools. More on my thesis here.
| Feature Companies | What they do |
|---|---|
| Substack | The world's publishing platform |
| Zaapi | AI customer service for e-commerce |
| Iris | Consumer AI assistant (YC F25) |
| DreamForge | AI game creation platform |
| Scam.ai | Deepfake detection (Skydeck Batch 20) |
| Swytchcode | execution authority for API integrations |
| Shield | B2B stablecoin payments & online banking |
| Haply Robotics | Industrial robotics and haptics |
| Trilobio | Lab automation robotics |
| Stride Soles | DTC custom orthotics via AI scanning |
| Rad Intel | AI marketing platform |
| YC Orange Fund F25 | Diversified YC batch fund |
My first time in a command line was part of a 2007 era high-school project refurbishing PCs for computer labs throughout Latin America, which rapidly evolved into making websites for old Runescape clans.
