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Timeline

I started life off as a weird kid in rural Virginia, with my childhood dog and muse, Bo (whose name I have tattooed on my right hand), and my violin.
I went to the University of Virginia for undergrad at a young age. I love the Blue Ridge Mountains and I miss the South. I still feel moved by the kindness professors showed me. I studied pure math, philosophy, and languages including Arabic and Greek.
I continued my studies in languages at Harvard, and then at the University of Cambridge!
I landed in California, at UC Berkeley for my PhD. I hated it when I arrived, but I remember someone from my hometown, who had ventured out west in the '90s, took one look at me and chuckled saying "oh, you'll move there and never look back."
During my PhD, I set myself the (mostly recreational) task of translating Nasīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī's 1248 CE recension of Euclid's Elements, written in Classical Arabic. With no suitable machine-translation tool available, I began assembling a dedicated training corpus to automate my translation tasks. This is when I caught the software bug.
I began hacking away on a "side quest" with my best friend Alena Titova, which was a dating app (I know, I know). I was single at the time and the project hijacked plenty of my neural circuits and I left my PhD program.
SOON, slowly and then all at once, morphed into a company with a significant San Francisco-based following and thousands of daily active users.
I met my perfect, angelic boyfriend, Diego Rodriguez, circuitously through SOON. This is one of my greatest accomplishments.
I still work with Alena, my best friend of NOW TEN YEARS! How blessed we are in friendship. We build… um, this… what you're looking at right now, and we hope you enjoy it :-)

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