I am an entrepreneur, engineer, and investor.

I was born in Seoul, grew up in Australia, and am currently based in Bellevue, Washington.

I started my career as a pearl diver working 4-6 hours a day underwater off the northwest of Australia where I was stung by an Irukandji jellyfish.

🎤 I'll be on a panel at the Open Lakehouse + AI Meetup in Bellevue on October 7. Register.

Work

• Created Spice.ai OSS at Spice AI.
• Co-founded the Azure Incubations group and incubated Dapr, OAM, and Radius at Microsoft.
• Technical Advisor at Basis Set Ventures.

Things I believe

• A belief is just a thought you keep thinking.
• You can't think without writing. If you're a poor writer, you're also a poor thinker.
• Ideas are a commodity; execution is everything.
• Fear is your personal guidance system.
  • You must go into fear, not avoid it.
• Value is created by doing hard things.
• Humans are creative beings; to be fulfilled we must create and be creative.

Reading

• Spice AI is giving every agent its own data stack
• Spice 2.0: Real-Time Analytical Query on Operational Data, Without ETL
• On Writing

All reading

Speaking

• Connecting the Open Lakehouse and AI Ecosystem
• Composable workloads with DataFusion, Ballista, and Comet
• Why every AI agent needs its own data stack

All talks

Learn

• Founders by David Senra.
• Essays by Paul Graham.