Mercatus Center · 2018–2024
State RegData Definitive Edition
A major focus throughout my six years at Mercatus. I served as database administrator, managed the public API, supported data collection, and helped turn state regulations and statutes into comparable longitudinal datasets. I also created new capabilities—including topic clustering and durable document references that kept documents consistently identifiable across editions—alongside restriction counts, industry relevance, agency metadata, search tools, and dashboards.
Institute for Humane Studies · 2025
ScholarsEdge
A research platform that consolidated statutes, regulations, bills, and scholarly work into traditional, semantic, concept, and graph-search systems.
Institute for Humane Studies · 2025
Excalibur
An Electron application somewhere between VS Code and Word: a workspace for researching, analyzing, and writing about public policy. Its constrained agent assembled dependable workflows—search, graphs, and statistical analysis—from the user’s request, relevant data, and narrowly defined skills.
Mercatus Center · 2024
Concept graph & concept search
A graph-based approach to legal search that normalized differences in document length, vocabulary, and topic density using co-occurrence, cross-citation, hierarchy, and legal relationships.
Mercatus Center · AI Engineer · 2024
Legislation bot
An AI-assisted system that matched new and changing legislation to research teams, ranked results, tracked selected bills, and delivered weekly email digests.
Mercatus Center · Data Engineer · 2023
Nukebot
The final project of my data-engineering tenure: a retrieval-augmented chatbot for federal and state nuclear-energy law and regulation. I built the search index, shared model storage, API, serverless functions, and network architecture.
Vulcan · 2025–2026
A national legal and government-data platform
Built a database and collection system spanning federal, state, and roughly 19,000 municipal governments, with billions of records from legal and other public sources.