I’ve been drawn to understand how things work from a very young age. At around seven, I was already poking around our family computer and breaking it more often than I’d like to admit, in the name of discovery, of course. I was a self-proclaimed hacker-man. My parents… didn’t feel the same way.
But that curiosity has stuck with me ever since. When I wrote my first game, tic-tac-toe, I didn’t care much for playing it. But creating the game and seeing others play it? That made my eyes light up. The next game? Snake, of course. The writing, building, and experimenting kept me entertained, each project lasting several weeks to complete.
My passion for computing led me to study computing science where I chased every opportunity to improve my skills. My internship landed me my first full-stack job, where I spent over three years bootstrapping my career. It is thanks to my amazing colleagues there that I’ve learned what building software in the real world truly looks like.
Computing, software, and problem-solving are still central to my life, but they are only a part of the picture.