Hi! 👋
My name is Dwight, and I love writing software.
I've been coding serious projects since I was a kid in 2008, building gemoetry proof-writers, 3d engines, and videogames from scratch.
In high-school, I interned at NASA's Ames Research Center, where I worked on automated theorem proving and formal verification for four years.
After graduating from RPI, I joined Google, where I started in Ads infrastructure. I used my 20% time (Google's side-project time) to make new code visualizations, and eventually switched to leading R&D on Google's central code tooling. I then transferred to Google's Engineering Productivity, working on automated testing and verification.
Today I work in Google's Ads DevAI team, automating code migration and transformation with LLMs and AI.
I've got a long list of personal projects, from AI and NLP (before it was cool), to many homemade games, and even a program that could invent its own computer algorithms (I "enrolled" it in my algorithms class at RPI). I love making tools that help other developers work better.
About Me
I do tons of sports and love talking about all of them. I was a gymnast and martial artist as a kid, a powerlifter and olympic lifter in college, and I've since gotten super into running, hiking, trail-running, swimming, diving, freediving, snowboarding, climbing, and others.
Check out my Strava profile
I also love cooking and food. I'll eat anything, but I'm a huge fan of making sushi, fried chicken, steak, seitan, and tons of other stuff.
I was a huge gamer in my youth, and still occasionally dabble. I also love chess and scrabble, as well as tons of other board/card games.
Feel free to reach out if you want to join me for any of these activities—I'm always happy to have company.
Athletics
Swimming
Swimming has been a central part of my life for years.
- 7-Mile Swim: Completed a nautical ultra-marathon
- 849,068 Yards in 2021: Company record for total distance in a year
- 500 Day Streak: Swam every single day for 500 consecutive days
Scuba Diving
PADI certified Advanced Open Water diver with over 100 dives.
Weightlifting
Training consistently since 2012.
- Bench Press: 315 lbs
- Squat: 455 lbs
- Deadlift: 535 lbs
- Clean and Jerk: 335 lbs
- Snatch: 285 lbs
Climbing
Both bouldering and toprope.
- Bouldering: 12 V8 routes completed
- Sport Climbing: Multiple 5.13 routes
Martial Arts
I've got a second degree black belt in TaeKwonDo, and taught at an MMA/TaeKwonDo school for years.
Cheerleading
Competed as a cheerleader in college at RPI.
Trash Cleanup
Trash Diving
I invented a sport, "trash diving", which involves freediving off of docks and piers to find trash. I've found dozens of phones and sunglasses which sit around my house, along with bikes, scooters, hard-drives, fishing rods, and dozens of other paraphernalia, including a handgun. Ask to see my trash-diving album :)
Land Trash Pickups
I've filled over 50 large trash bags doing trash walks and do them whenever I can. Join me!
Food & Cooking
Cooking
I love cooking almost as much as I love eating.
More details coming soon...
Games
A collection of browser games I've built. All run entirely in your browser—no installs needed!