I'm an American born and raised, but I haven't spent much time there since graduating. My junior year I studied abroad at Keio University and learned Japanese, and I've been on the move ever since.

I began my programming journey at Ironhack, a coding bootcamp in Barcelona where I learned Ruby on Rails and JavaScript. Then I started my first engineering job at Mobile Now Group in Shanghai. There I built mobile applications for foreign companies, many in luxury, eager to enter the Chinese market, and I also migrated the company's website to Ghost.

Later I found my way back to Tokyo and worked at Rakuten (Japanese Amazon with a bank and phone company attached), where I built internal tools using Rails and Vue. Along the way I earned a Master's in Computer Science from National Taiwan Normal University. There I took classes on compilers, data visualization, graphics, and neural networks. I also wrote a thesis on lexical diversity in LLM summaries and learned a bit of Chinese.

Then began the founding-engineer-at-Austin-based-startups era of my life. First at Virdee, I worked on access control (printing key cards and opening locks with phones) and desktop and mobile interfaces. At Prospyr Medical, I worked on queue infrastructure, social media integrations, subscriptions, payments, prescriptions, and inventory management. This phase involved a lot of React, Express, Postgres, and AWS and some iOS and Android development.

Now I work on Mikan Labs, producing small software projects using languages and frameworks I find interesting, and Dev Design Daily, a publication offering some thoughts on software. I'm also the co-founder of RealityNet, and you can find my crypto writing at Block Bit Radio.