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About Me

My name is Eric Ziegler, I am a Software Architect at The Washington Post (specifically in the Arc XP division). If you’ve watched a news video somewhere on the web besides TikTok and YouTube, there’s a good chance you interacted with code I’ve written. I work primarily with Python and Java, but occasionally also Rust and Kotlin.

When I’m feeling especially saucy, I dabble in multi-platform app construction. I also sometimes cobble together workable frontend code.

I also enjoy building deep-learning models, though this isn’t something I do as much these days, with the current de jour of using off-the-shelf LLMs for everything.

AI Disclosure

No LLMs were harmed in the making of this blog: while I do use generative AI in my day job, I don’t believe in using it for producing my blog. In my opinion, my blog should be my voice, not an LLMs. Otherwise, it feels like I’d be wasting your time; why go through the effort to fill a website with something you could have gotten directly from ChatGPT?