Products & systems at scale
Building across YouTube’s Connected TV, music, podcasts, audio ads, and data infrastructure.
Engineer, builder & community leader
Hi, I’m Steven.
Big systems.Human ideas.
I build products and systems at Google, explore what AI makes possible, and bring founders together in Silicon Valley.
Technology is better when it brings people together.
Building at Google. Previously at AWS.
Connecting founders through HYSTA.
Building & exploring
A few things I’m putting into the world.
An interactive research project
AI World
Find your way through the AI company landscape. Explore companies, funding, and the ideas shaping the industry.
Explore the landscapeA research notebook
AI Law
Where artificial intelligence meets legal work. Company research, product ideas, and experiments.
Open the notebookA product for the game table
MoonTrace
Remember every round of Werewolf. Capture speeches, elections, and votes, then revisit the game.
Discover MoonTraceNotes from the work
On AI, technology, and what comes next.
Founders Club at the 2026 HYSTA Annual Conference
This year, I was delighted to co-host the Founders Club track at the HYSTA Annual Conference with Nikita, bringing together founders, investors, and friends both old and new.
In the AI Era, the Boundary of Expertise Has Blurred
A family member had a nosebleed that wouldn't stop for two hours. Every consumer AI told me to go to the ER and refused to say anything useful. Then I changed the question — and got the actual protocol.
Cerebras: Insights from the Mega IPO
From infrastructure to people.
My work spans the systems behind products, the products people use, and the teams and communities that build them.
Always learning. Always sharing.
Studies in AI at Stanford and a master’s in Computer Engineering from NYU. Along the way, mentoring engineers and sharing what I learn.
Amazon AWS
2018 — 2019AWS Global Accelerator
A founding member of the team that launched AWS Global Accelerator at re:Invent 2018.
HYSTA
Head of Founders Club
Bringing entrepreneurs, investors, and industry leaders together through HYSTA’s founder community.
HYSTA Founders ClubGood things start with a conversation.
Building something, thinking about AI, or connecting the dots? I’d love to hear what you’re working on.