A home page is a strange thing to write.

Interests and recent work

  • Engineering at Shopify on the Sidekick+ CX R&D team.
  • Seven months at Mozilla doing applied ML and networking research on Firefoxโ€™s privacy team. Built models to defend hundreds of millions of users from the trackers and fingerprinting scripts that quietly run on almost every page of the open web.
  • Built Firefoxโ€™s new tab widget surfacing metrics for enhanced tracking protection. Closed a handful of security bugs along the way.

Ultra running and triathlons

I race ultras and triathlons! Training for the Canadian team for 2027 worlds.

Currently reading

Crucial Conversations, Thinking in Bets, Range.

Silly facts

  • Iโ€™ve always loved geography. I have a small collection of maps I find interesting, and play a lot of GeoGuessr!
  • All my belongings live in one 40L black duffel. I care for the environment; fast fashion is a moral failure.
  • I think analog synthesizers are some of the most beautifully engineered objects on earth.

Questions Iโ€™ve been thinking about

  • How can I get better at setting medium-term goals?
  • What would 30-year-old me wish 20-year-old me had spent more time on?
  • How can I be a better brother?
  • How do I stop getting injured? :)

Contact

jameshan.cs@gmail.com ยท GitHub ยท LinkedIn