This site is the place to find me if you’re looking, and occasionally a place for me to sound off on work, my life and travels, and my obsession with weird old movies.
- My curriculum vitae.
- I am currently an AI engineer at Microsoft AI‘s Vancouver office, where I work on frontier model safety.
- Until May 2025, I was at Salesforce and Tableau, where I worked on multiple projects as an AI Architect and tech lead.
- Before I joined big tech, I was lucky enough to work at Pocket Pixels on the popular iOS photography apps Color Splash and Juxtaposer. I also worked on the Machine Learning parts of news recommender app Zite, which was acquired by Flipboard in 2014.
- My PhD thesis, code, and other publications. The subject of my PhD work is Bayesian optimization, with an emphasis on practical AI applications (computer vision, machine-aided animation tools, robotics, etc). I had the incredible fortune of having Nando de Freitas as my thesis supervisor.
- For the past few years I’ve been making something or other to sum up each year of my life and sometimes putting it online. Here’s what I did for 2023, 2020, 2018, 2017, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012 and 2011
- I <3 movies. Partly because people sometimes ask, but mostly because I’m a huge dork who wants the world to love what I love as much as I do, I maintain a list of my favourite movies that you maybe haven’t seen.
- My wife and I love to travel, mostly in Asia and Australia. In November-December 2024 I took a month-long trip to Nepal, which was an incredible experience, in spite of the COVID and altitude sickness. I saw a yeti scalp and everything!
Email: eric@haikufactory.com
Instagram: @misterwindupbird
Letterboxd: mrwindupbird
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RECENTLY (November 2025)
“When the past is always with you, it may as well be present; and if it is present, it will be future as well.”
— William Gibson, Neuromancer
- Game: Moonring (Mac)
- Comic: A Moore, S Bissette, and J Totleben; Saga of the Swamp Thing (reread)
- Non-Fiction:—
- Fiction: T Ligotti, Songs of a Dead Dreamer
- Podcast: Shelved by Genre
- TV: The Studio, season one
- Music: Witch Bolt
- Restaurant: Say Hey Cafe, 156 E Pender St
- Drinks: Cascade Room, 2616 Main St
- Coffee: AM Cafe, 2528 Guelph St
- Last Great Movie: One Battle After Another (d P T Anderson, 2025)
- Last Good Movie: True Grit (d E Coen & J Coen, 2010; rewatch)