👋🏻 Howdy, I'm Ethan. Let's explore.
I'm passionate about merging product and tech to fix societal problems through empathy, ideation, and iteration.
I've worn many hats - engineer, product manager, sales leader, and startup builder. I'll always be a builder.
Recently, I launched MongoDB's search platform. Now, I'm on a mission to equip anyone with deep multimodal search capabilities in a single line of code.
Balance 🧘🏼
I'm all about work/life balance and love exploring the great outdoors with my pup through mountain biking, backpacking, kayaking, and climbing.
I learned electricals, plumbing, woodwork and metalwork to equip a badass camper van for off-grid work and travel.
Check out vanlifecoder for the full build journal, travel log and cost breakdown. Who knows, maybe it'll inspire you to pursue your own epic BHAG!
Blueprints 🛠️
- VectorSearch.dev - Applying Minimal Viable Discovery principles at MongoDB to release our latest, most complex feature.
- Nutripeek.com - Empowering users to take control of their mental and physical health through the research, curation and evaluation of supplement stacks.
- Meports.com - Enhancing everybody's quality of life by using data and technology. Meports combines genetic reporting with digital wearable monitoring to deliver data-driven lifestyle optimization reporting.
- Fandemic - Low code platform allowing anybody to create their branded merchandise ecommerce stores.
- ComparedCare - Award winning healthcare cost transparency platform.
Blog 📝
- “Cur Non?” — A Battlecry to Change the World 09/23
- Top 5 Pitfalls in Machine Learning Implementation 08/23
- Building a Vector Search Engine Using HNSW and Cosine Similarity 07/23
- The Growth Stack for Early-Stage Startups 07/23
- The Broken Jet Stream Behind NYC’s Smoke Invasion 06/23
- MongoDB and Pinecone: Building Real-Time AI Applications 05/23
- Why Pursuing a BHAG is Worth the Struggle 05/23
- So you want to become a unicorn 04/23
- An Open-Source, Personalized Generative Model Framework 03/23
- Teaching GPT-4 to write code from research papers 03/23