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.
Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at AmbleFeb 2025 - PresentLeading 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.
Founder Fellow at South Park CommonsOct 2023 - Jan 2025Raised $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.
AI Product and Engineering at SpotifyJun 2020 - Oct 2023Led 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.
AI Safety Researcher at Oxford Internet InstituteDec 2019 - Sep 2020Researched and published on bias mitigation in automated content moderation systems.
Data Specialist at TwitterMay 2019 - Sep 2019Aided ML product efforts through data enrichment and analysis, and led data strategy for expansion into India.
Policy Intern at GoogleJun 2018 - Sep 2018Worked on policy and reputation strategy for EU elections and helped draft Google's responsible AI principles.