I'm a co-founder at Responsive and a database engineer at heart. I spend most of my time building storage engines, streaming systems, and the developer tools around them.

I write about databases, storage internals, and distributed systems at bitsxpages.com .

My professional work is in the data infrastructure space:

• SlateDB : A cloud-native embedded storage engine built on object storage. I'm one of the top contributors and a maintainer of the project.
• OpenData : An open-source platform for building databases (e.g. vector, log, tiemseries) on top of SlateDB. I'm one of the founding members of the project
• Imprint : A binary row serialization format built for stream processing workloads.

• yuzudraw : An ASCII diagramming tool designed for both humans and AI agents. Built as a native macOS application.
• tuicr : A TUI for human-in-the-loop code review of AI-generated changes. Built in Rust.

Before starting Responsive, I was a core engineer at Confluent where I helped maintain ksqlDB (700+ commits). I'm also a contributor to:

• Apache Kafka : Kafka Streams internals, processor supplier migrations, iterator bug fixes
• Apache Pinot : Realtime distributed OLAP datastore

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