Technical Educator | Content Consultant | Developer Advocate
In the mid-90s I wrote code for adventure games at Humongous Entertainment, where kids navigated puzzles, made choices, and learned without knowing they were learning. The company is gone now, but the problem it posed never left me: how do you take something genuinely complex and make it feel natural to someone who isn't an expert?
After a stint teaching at community colleges, I earned my doctorate. While finishing my dissertation, I taught Differential Equations to engineering students at Washington University. Afterwards, I spent a decade in Washington University's University College, their evening extension school, where my classroom included everyone from medical researchers and librarians to the drivers who transport live organs to waiting surgeons. Teaching people of wildly different backgrounds sharpened something you can't fake: the ability to meet people where they are.
In parallel I built a career as a data scientist in healthcare, government, and tech, including work at Booz Allen Hamilton (NASA), healthcare analytics firms, and a Fortune 5 insurer.
Now I write courses and technical articles for DataCamp and Real Python, and evaluate LLMs for mathematical reasoning.
The throughline is always translation: taking something genuinely complex and making it intelligible to the person who needs it.