Hello!

I’m John.

I love startups, books, and otters. I’ve been working in the startup ecosystem for 30 years. I started my career as a software engineer, designed some products, and have helped start some companies. I am the CPO/CTO at kea.ai, and am an advisor to Zainar and Vaire Computing.

I’m currently interested in Voice AI (ASR, VAD, LLM, TTS), ML Compilers (LLVM, MLIR, IREE), and Computing (Reversible Computing).