Understanding rapid advances in technology and hearing the distant rumble of less tangible parameters like shifts in funding models and national priorities directs the path forward for differentiated research and technology development. I operate keeping this bigger picture in mind. As a nimble engineer traversing approaches, disciplines, and contexts, I am a technical translator with the ability to quickly identify and articulate core questions and liabilities for a diverse range of problems, including experimental and computational approaches to protein engineering and technology development for infectious disease, and designing digital infrastructure to manage, streamline, and analyze large datasets. If I don’t personally have the technical expertise for your problem, I can quickly identify the experts to learn from.