I'm a software engineer who accidentally got into the social sciences. I work at the Growth Lab at the Harvard Center for International Development, where we come up with and test theories as to how and why certain countries develop while other ones don't. I spend most of my time munging data and building data visualization tools. I've worked at a variety of places from my own tiny startup to large software companies to academia. I think writing code is a craft that gets better with curiosity and practice. I love teaching, giving talks, and nerdy things in general.