I keep solving one problem
in different rooms.

What I'm building now

I'm co-founder and CTO of Kugelblitz, where we build conversational AI avatars of top creators and thought leaders — turning passive content consumption into real-time dialogue. Under the hood it's voice synthesis, conversational AI, RAG, and personalization; above the hood it's a single obsession: quality, truthfulness, and experience. We want the most truthful virtual avatars of the people they represent, which means teaching a system to say "I don't know" rather than fabricate a plausible opinion.

The road here

I started at Cruise in San Francisco, where I grew from software engineer to engineering manager over four years. I built the early end-to-end computer-vision stack for traffic-light detection — camera selection, calibration, the GPU image pipeline, the ML detector and tracker — that navigated the large majority of the city's intersections correctly. I re-architected the high-level routing planner into something probabilistic and constraint-based, and built map- and data-labeling automation: multi-view geometry and segmentation nets that annotated a city's map features in minutes instead of months, sensor-fusion graph solvers with humans in the loop, and active-learning dataset curation.

That work made me a named inventor on several granted US patents in AV perception, routing, and mapping. Then I spent time at craftworks on industrial computer vision — wood processing, agriculture, manufacturing — and a TrustedAI certification process, before starting Kugelblitz.

How I think about building

Safety-critical engineering rewires you. You learn to be precise about where caution is owed and fast everywhere else; to make failure observable before you make features fast; to represent uncertainty honestly instead of papering over it. I've carried all of that from cars into startups, where the thing you can most easily break isn't a system — it's trust.

I've written this down more concretely on the How I Work page — if you're deciding whether to build something with me, start there.

The human side

I'm in my mid-thirties, married, with two kids. I speak English and French. I take photographs — the cliff at the top of this site is mine — because paying close attention to the world is the same instinct that makes decent engineering. I'm curious about economics, philosophy, and religion, and I believe careers don't have to be linear; reinventing yourself every few years is the normal shape of a builder's life. Down-to-earth, allergic to hype, happiest with a hard problem and good people around it.