About me

Hi! I'm Philipp — a Senior Applied Scientist at StreetEasy, where I work full-stack across several projects: our home value estimate, matching, and recommendation — from the data and the models through to the services and APIs that ship them.

I'm drawn to tools and services somehow connected to the physical world. I got here the long way around — first an architect, then an urban planner, then a data journalist, and now — applied scientist. I've long stopped treating those as separate careers — it's one way of working that's just had several names.

Before moving to NYC, I co-created Branchpoint, a non-profit teaching parametric design project, and perhaps one day I'll get back to it. And I teach at both university and school level.