An unordered set of facts about me:

• I live for the outdoors, whether it’s backpacking, climbing, river tubing, or just working outside
• I’ve been long-distance trail running for over a decade and powerlifting for the last 7 years or so
• I’ve spent a total of two winter months taking care of an off-the-grid cabin in Alaska along with its 10 resident reindeer
• When I was much younger, I played Pokemon cards at a nationally competitive level
• My first “machine learning” project was coding a genetic algorithm (but back then I just knew it as “stochastic optimization”)