Data & Autonomy Infrastructure Engineer
Eventual — Daft San Francisco
Core contributor to Daft. Data infrastructure for curating physical-AI robot learning datasets, at petabyte and exabyte scale.
Data & Autonomy Infrastructure Engineer
EverettKleven
Making complex physical systems trustworthy through data
Experience
Founder
Vangelis Technologies San Francisco
Archetype — an AI-native ECS simulation engine on Daft and Iceberg. Parallel worlds by stamped world IDs; lazy DAGs materialised at the storage layer. Shipped 0.5.0.
Technical Product Manager — Big Data Engineering
Lucid Motors Newark, CA
Half of the centralised big data portfolio: petabyte time-series pipelines, multi-region fleet observability, ML platform. 20× cost reduction to Iceberg. 99% reliability SLA.
Product Manager — Data as a Service
Daimler Trucks North America Portland, OR
Autonomous Technology Group. Ten data services in ten months; terabyte CAN and ECU pipelines from test vehicles over cellular.
Guidance, Navigation & Control Engineer
Boeing Phantom Works St. Louis, MO
Flight controls for open-loop unstable air vehicles. T-7A, MQ-25, proprietary programs. SIL, HIL, and flight test validation.
Work
Archetype
AI-native ECS simulation engine. Typed components on Daft dataframes, world state in Iceberg — a run can be replayed, queried, and audited.
Daft
Distributed dataframe for multimodal AI. Core contributor; drove AI functions, file abstraction, and checkpointing onto the roadmap.
awesome-physical-ai
Curated open-source list for Physical AI — robotics, embodied intelligence, simulation, and the infrastructure under them.
sessionscope
Privacy-first browser analyzer for agent session files. Zero upload, runs offline.
PapyrusChat
Talk to your paper books with AI. Won the hackathon at Microsoft Reactor, Seattle.
Speaking
Co-founded and co-host BSOTA — an IRL series in San Francisco for practitioners building with agents.
Why Models Break Your Pipelines
PyData Seattle 2025
Fever Dreams: Working With and Against AI Sycophancy
Nerds Like Me — Chicago
Athletics
Three-time All-American — pole vault
School record holder, Washington University in St. Louis
Three-sport letterman
US Army Reserve National Scholar-Athlete
Education
MS Aerospace Engineering · BS Mechanical Engineering · BS Applied Physics