I’m a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google working on Perfetto, an open source suite of tools for performance tracing and analysis. I joined Perfetto as a founding engineer in 2017 and have been part of the project ever since.
I’m passionate about performance, open-source and especially the intersection of those two domains. I’m also generally interested in AI/LLMs and how they are changing the software engineering industry.
Some highlights in my past:
- I’ve given two public talks:
- Perfetto: The Swiss Army Knife of Linux Client/Embedded Tracing
- Tracing Summit 2025 · Recording · Annotated presentation · Slides
- Analysing Perfetto Android traces at every scale
- Perfetto: The Swiss Army Knife of Linux Client/Embedded Tracing
- I published papers on formal verification of neural networks, which have collectively been cited over 500 times.
- I contributed to Android custom ROMs like CyanogenMod and OmniROM, mainly on device bringup of budget Android devices. I also worked as an informal contractor for Sony on AOSP device bringup.
- I wrote several open source Android apps and libraries, the most successful being an IRC client called HoloIRC.
If you’re interested in learning more, my public resume is here.
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