Systems & Stories
Where machine learning craft meets cinematic fieldwork
I build large-scale AI systems for commerce and archive the intelligence of the wild through film, photography, and notes. This is a living map of those pursuits.
Machine learning
Commerce-scale AI
At Shopify, I architect systems that give structure and meaning to the world's products — aligning language, imagery, and metadata into a living catalogue of global commerce.
- Building knowledge graphs across billions of SKUs.
- Designing human-in-the-loop tools for trust, quality, and curation.
- Research on multimodal alignment, retrieval, and interpretability.
Fieldwork
Wildlife & film
Beyond the lab, I document intelligence in its oldest form — instinct. My fieldwork spans the Okavango, Serengeti, and India's tiger reserves, where I study the choreography between light, motion, and behavior.
- Long-form visual essays with ambient sound and field notes.
- Low-light, underwater, and aerial cinematography experiments.
- Conservation-first planning with local guides and trackers.
Featured expeditions
Field notes from the latest journeys
Southern Africa 2024 — From Floodplains to Coastline
Thirteen days from Okavango's floods to Savuti's dust, Victoria Falls' thunder, and Sabi Sands' abundance — ending at the Cape's edge.
Botswana — From Water to Dust to Thunder
Okavango Delta's mirrored channels, Savuti's lion-ruled dust, and the roar of Victoria Falls — six days across Botswana's most dramatic ecosystems.
Cape Town — Reflection and Return
The edge of the continent — where mountain meets sea and the journey becomes a promise to return.
Sabi Sands — Abundance and Proximity
Four nights at Mala Mala — lion cubs beside the vehicle, leopards against hyenas, wild dogs with pups, and elephants at the pool. Life overflowing.
Ngorongoro Crater — The Circle of Life
A volcanic amphitheatre holding Africa’s rhythm — lions feeding, rhinos resting, warthogs defending their young.
Central Serengeti — The Heart of the Plains
The great pride on the kopjes, a leopard in the fig trees, and nights alive with sound — abundance meeting stillness.
Systems thinking
Clean data contracts, interpretable models, and feedback loops that keep human intent at the center of automation.
Field ethics
Designing with empathy — whether in wildlife habitats or human systems — by prioritizing context, consent, and conservation.
Documentation
Structured reflection through essays, notes, and footage — mapping how ideas evolve across disciplines.