Passionate about making social media a safe place for everyone.

SWE w a BA in Anthro.
Former tech lead for Scaled Human Review at Meta (Integrity, Better Engineering, Metaverse). Yeah, I swore I’d never work there, but I decided to see if I could make things better. I couldn’t.


Currently consulting with my partner (see below) on digital security and peace initiatives.


4 decades on social media. (Seriously, I saw someone catfished in chat in 1978.)


nazgul on Twitter, CoHost, LinkedIn, GitHub, Reddit, and probably somewhere else.
 Blog coming next month to technosocial.com


Pan, poly, non-binary. they/he

Partner:
Dr. Mollie Pepper, researcher and consultant on gender, migration, violence, and authoritarian governments. https://carlsonpepper.com/


Daughters:
Shadi Fotouhi - Senior SWE at Wayfair.

Shireen Hinckley - Editor and Post Production Supervisor at Parkwood Entertainment (aka Beyoncé). Black is King. Renaissance…