ABOUT

Software engineer in Tampa. I build tools, mostly for myself, sometimes for other people.

Before software I worked in aerospace manufacturing. Precision filtration, CNC, SAP ERP, the Airbus XLR project. The kind of work where tolerances matter and mistakes cost. That instinct came with me.

B.S. in Computer Science done. M.S. finishing August. Before that, a B.A. in Political Science, useful for understanding why organizations make bad decisions about their tooling.

The work I like sits where hardware meets software: embedded, infrastructure, anything close to the metal. C when I want to know what's happening. Rust when I want it fast. The AI coding wave is pushing everyone toward typed languages anyway; that part I don't mind.

I also write and produce music. Been in a handful of bands and solo projects you've probably never heard of. A small stack of Behringer boxes, RD-6, TD-3, a Korg SQ-64 sequencer, into a Eurorack mixer and out to Ableton. Most sounds built from scratch.

Taste runs wide and arrived in layers. Punk and power violence early: Charles Bronson, Spazz, Man Is the Bastard. Then Warp: Autechre, Aphex, Squarepusher, Boards of Canada. The 90s ambient IDM influence shows up in what I make now. Jazz came in late teens, mostly through John Zorn: Painkiller, Naked City, the surrounding catalog. Current rotation: 70s–90s Japanese city pop on CD, Chinese math rock, traditional Chinese music.

Languages, the spoken kind: some Japanese, past beginner. Chinese in progress.