student developer from the bay area
Hi. I'm Tristan. I'm a 17 year old from the Bay Area. I enjoy building creative/innovative side projects and attending hackathons. Currently, I am a Research Engineer at dmodel (YC S24), building their v0 product and RL environments for frontier AI labs.
Previously, I did research on autonomous racing systems and taught courses on modern javascript frameworks.
Outside of tech, I am an avid moviegoer, pianost, and photographer. I also like to read and write (but unfortunately I procrastinate in these as well). In the past year, I've found myself drawn to philosophy, i.e epistemology, and I've even written a post on it!
I enjoy playing piano, typically impressionist or romantic. I enjoy listening to all sorts of music: jazz, 2000's pop, rap, r&b, indie, classical, modern soul, disney songs and probably more.
I believe I'm quite a pessimistic person? I don't believe in a lot of things, but I've yet to explore this idea further. I do, however, believe it is critical to slow down in this modern fast-paced era.
Read my blogs, check out my projects, or reach me at me@tristangee.com, LinkedIn, X/Twitter.
At 2 a.m., when the world is quiet, the only thing worse than failing is realizing you never even tried." - Scott Stillman