About Me
I started teaching myself to code when I was 13 years old, with the hopes of making my own video games. When my parent's computer died, I hacked together my own PCs from junk parts my dad and brother found collecting scrap metal, and installed Linux on them.
I worked on a ton of small personal projects, like hacking the sound waves on my guitar, and creating todo lists and mock point-of-sale systems using Ruby on Rails. I got my first job at a startup when I was 20, and dove headfirst into the deep end, learning more about web technologies, product design, and mobile app development. I went on to co-found a few startups of my own, one of which (YesInsights) was acquired in 2017 by Design Pickle.
Some things I've built over my career include:
- A custom headless CMS that served over 8 million pageviews per month at its peak, before such systems were available off-the-shelf
- An embeddable web widget for displaying one-click surveys
- A toolkit for creating your own old-school RPG in the style of Final Fantasy or Pokemon
- A distributed timer for synchronizing events in a manufacturing plant
- A crowdsourced "subjective audio analysis" engine that could tell how funny something is or how professional someone sounds, before modern AI
In my spare time, I like to read (especially speculative fiction and fantasy), write short stories and essays, and spend time with my wife, Victoria.