Hey there, I'm Zo. Welcome to my digital garden. I like building things, and I'm currently working on Amble.

In my free time, I enjoy exploring the intersection of technology and policy, reading about history, and contemplating the nature of intelligence.

I do some writing as well, albeit not as consistently, but I'm working on being better at that.

Career
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    Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at Amble
    Feb 2025 - Present

    Leading product and engineering for a conversational language learning app powered by voice AI agents, directing a team of 11 engineers and designers and overseeing the entire end-to-end product lifecycle.

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    Founder Fellow at South Park Commons
    Oct 2023 - Jan 2025

    Raised $3.7 million, created a company to enhance creative workflows using fine-tuned copyright compliant multimodal AI, and built out a team of 6 engineers and designers from scratch.

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    AI Product and Engineering at Spotify
    Jun 2020 - Oct 2023

    Led a cross‑functional team to build AI-powered content understanding and moderation systems to support compliance with the EU Digital Services Act (DSA). Engineered, scaled and evaluated machine learning systems to power podcast recommendations.

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    AI Safety Researcher at Oxford Internet Institute
    Dec 2019 - Sep 2020

    Researched and published on bias mitigation in automated content moderation systems.

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    Data Specialist at Twitter
    May 2019 - Sep 2019

    Aided ML product efforts through data enrichment and analysis, and led data strategy for expansion into India.

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    Policy Intern at Google
    Jun 2018 - Sep 2018

    Worked on policy and reputation strategy for EU elections and helped draft Google's responsible AI principles.