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 currently the CPO/CTO at kea.ai, and am also an advisor to Zainar and Vaire.

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