I’m a software developer, mostly working with data and sound for clients at my micro-consultancy, Tungite Labs. I’m the creator and maintainer of the birdnetlib open source project, which enables researchers to analyze large bioacoustics data sets in Python using Cornell’s BirdNET analyzers.

Birds and Birding

I consider myself a fairly serious birder. I’m currently at 482 species worldwide as of mid-2023. Recent highlights are the Mexican Chickadee in Arizona, and Kittlitz’s Murrelet in Alaska. Local highlights include a Swallow-tailed kite, which was only the second-recorded eBird sighting of this species in my home county.

Sound and sound art

I’ve been field recording since 1998, though my early archive remains on source media. I’ve transferred all the DAT tapes, but I need to track down an adequate MiniDisc player.

From time to time, I’ll post some of my field recording work and sound art. I’m also interested in Max, modular synthesis, and web-audio experiments.

Previously

• CTO of a media tech company (we won a Webby!)
• Solo developer of an industry-standard multimedia authoring application
• Python and JavaScript developer
• Multimedia journalist at an online newspaper (won an SND gold medal!)
• Flash developer
• Director of Photography at a print newspaper
• A producer for MSNBC.com
• Sole online journalist for a print newspaper’s website (won an ONA award!)
• Staff photojournalist at a print newspaper in wet, and digital darkrooms
• Rockabilly drummer
• Shoegaze guitarist
• Operations Assistant at a multinational mining conglomerate conducting seawater oxidation research (I watched over a variety of rusty metal objects, though mostly I just kept drunk boaters off the docks)