About Me

What I Do

I'm a Principal Data Analyst at Capital One, where I spend most of my time working with debit card data — figuring out what's happening, why it's happening, and what we should probably do about it. The work is mostly SQL and Python, but the interesting part is less about the tools and more about becoming the person other teams come to when they need to understand how something works.

How I Got Here

I studied mechanical engineering, which gave me a very specific way of thinking about problems — break the system down, figure out how the pieces interact, find the thing that's actually driving the outcome. After school, data analytics presented itself as an opportunity, and it turned out that same engineering brain fit really well. The domain changed, but the instinct didn't: take something complicated, figure out how it works, make it useful.

What I Build

I have a possibly excessive habit of building personal tools to solve my own problems. I've made a relationship manager for keeping up with friends, a task manager with AI integration, a web app that visualizes every FDIC bank branch in the country over time, and a few other things that live under a shared design system I call aaronOS. Most of these exist because I wanted them to exist and couldn't stop thinking about them until they did.

What I Do to My Body

I ran an 850-mile bike trip around Iceland. I've summited Mount Whitney. I'm training for a marathon right now, which involves a training spreadsheet that would make you concerned for my wellbeing. I'm planning a trek through the Dolomites later this year. I like finding out what happens when you ask a lot of your legs.

Get in Touch

If any of this sounds like your kind of weird, I'd love to hear from you. You can reach me by email or find me on LinkedIn.