I tend to describe myself as a nomadic de-chaosifier. I like stepping into complex systems, whether technical, organizational, or human, and making them clearer, calmer, and more effective.

A lot of the decisions I make in life are guided less by whether something is “normal” and more by whether it feels meaningful and worth doing. This has led to a wide variety of opportunities and experiences.

Professionally, I’ve worked as a systems builder across very different environments and industries. This includes large-scale tech industry positions building systems to help partners work more effectively with Google, as well as smaller, more specialized companies like Onit, where the focus was building structured workflows for complex business operations in Fortune 500 companies. I've worked in oil and gas e-learning, professional poker services, and full-stack web engineering.

I’ve also worked in very small, high-agency environments like Greenlamp Publishing, which had just a handful of people but was operating at a surprising level of scale and efficiency, in part due to the systems I built. Across all of these opportunities was a focus on building reliable, repeatable systems that make business operations run smoothly.

My academic path is a little unconventional. I have two undergraduate degrees: Cognitive Science from Rice University and Computer Science from Minerva University. Minerva was particularly impactful because it was not a traditional campus experience. I studied across multiple cities around the world, including the United States, Korea, Germany, Argentina, Taiwan, and Japan. That experience shaped how I think about collaboration across time zones, cultural contexts, and different ways of working.

Outside of academics, I tend to get very deep into whatever I’m interested in. I’m currently learning Japanese (still very much a beginner), and I spend time writing fiction and screenplays, as I love the process of creating characters and stories to go along with them.

I’m also very interested in music production, an interest I came to in a particular way: I really like a particular J-pop group, but none of my friends were into them. At some point, I got curious about why that difference exists, which somehow turned into studying music theory and trying to understand what, structurally, makes certain music land for certain people. It’s less “I want to be a musician” and more “I want to understand how this thing is built.” This is what happens when systems people get creative hobbies. :)

A small but important detail: I also have a mild obsession with Japanese office supplies. There is no deeper justification for that one.