// about me
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I spent a lot of my childhood modding video games with my friends - basically breaking things just to see if I could put them back together in a more interesting way. Despite always being fascinated by computers and technology, I started university with the intention of becoming a medical doctor. Two years into human anatomy labs and medical ethics, I took a C++ elective on a whim. Building applications reminded me of the joy I had modding games, and I was hooked.
Cramming a CS degree into my original graduation timeline was an intense sprint (yes, summer school was involved), but it gave me a perspective I've kept ever since: I care just as much about the people using the systems as the systems themselves. I still look at software through the lens of human empathy and ethics I picked up in those medical labs, because software is only as good as the human problems it actually solves.
Since taking that C++ course, I’ve been involved in everything from vaccine bioinformatics and diffraction grating modeling with CERN to shipping AAA games. These days I’m a Staff Engineer at DigitalOcean, building distributed infrastructure and AI agents that thousands of developers build on. Turns out debugging a distributed system is surprisingly similar to surgery, just with less anesthesia and more "Undo" buttons.
// beyond the keyboard
When I'm not building large-scale distributed systems, you might find me chasing delicious food, playing the drums and piano, or learning something new about the stars.
