I did an interview recently on Tech Talks, a local tech show hosted by Michael Bertoni. I talk a bit about my time at Buyside, how I’ve built my teams,... [Read More]

I was recently featured in a Forbes article about troubleshooting code. Enjoy! [Read More]

I think it’s important to learn from those who came before us. There are rarely any “new” occurrences. For instance, the Great Recession had some unique circumstances (complex securities mixed... [Read More]

I recently came across a deeply insightful talk by Bret Victor called “Inventing on Principle” (thanks @patrick_oshag!). While his talk his focused primarily on his own work in software design,... [Read More]

To paraphrase my son Joey’s favorite Dr. Seuss book “One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish”, “2018 is gone. 2018 was fun. 2019 is another one.”. It was quite... [Read More]

I’ve been quite busy of late in my new role as CTO of Buyside. I’ve loved the challenge of leading development teams and scaling out a rapidly-growing business. However, between... [Read More]

James Clear's idea of Systems over Goals [Read More]

Fellow Spark developers, hearken to me! How fast is your Spark development cycle? Slow? Really slow? You could use this super awesome template to enable running your Spark jobs in... [Read More]