About

I'm an Artificial Intelligence and Analytics student at the University of Texas at Dallas, where I conduct financial research. I work at Actriant, helping businesses identify people problems and build technical solutions to solve them. Inventor and lead developer of daRSVP technology.

I grew up moving between the U.S., New Zealand, and back again before Dallas became home for most of my childhood. I still move between art and engineering—the patience I learned with pastels and piano shows up when I'm debugging or mentoring someone through their first pull request. Most of what I build starts as a people problem: a studio running on memory and paper, a student council blind to its own budget, a team losing hours to friction no one had measured.

The sections below are the longer version—how I got here, what I like, where I've been, and a few facts that never made it onto my résumé. If you want to work together, say hello.

Some History

  • Age 5My parents brought home a computer for me and my five siblings to share, and my mother regretfully sat me down to start my classical piano journey. When I wasn't practicing scales, I was glued to the monitor, watching my dad and brother play Age of Empires on a heavy beige PC.
  • Age 6I tore apart my first calculator to see what was inside. I'm still not entirely sure I reassembled it correctly, but it sparked a lifelong obsession with taking things apart to figure out how they work.
  • Age 12I picked up pastels in middle school and found a real passion for visual art. I ended up winning a VASE Gold Seal and three Texas State Medals as one of the top young artists in Texas. The deep patience and attention to detail I built on paper ended up transferring directly into math and code.
  • Age 15I took my first coding class. When school shifted remote during quarantine, I looped a pre-recorded video of myself into Zoom so I could spend class hours tinkering with software and playing video games. I landed a job to teach kids Roblox development in Lua, but the class was canceled for low enrollment before my first day. Pivoting, I followed my sister's lead and started teaching private piano lessons instead.
  • Age 17I took over my sister's piano business. Realizing the operation was running on memory and paper, I built a custom CRM and analytics dashboard from scratch to streamline scheduling and client management—my first real taste of business optimization. That same year, I completed Harvard's CS50 Web Development course, fully convinced my future was in full-stack web dev.
  • Age 18I spent the summer studying abroad in Spain at the Universidad de Salamanca. I spent my time traveling across Spain and Portugal, making incredible friends who challenged my perspective and inspired me to aim much bigger in life.
  • Age 19I started at UT Dallas and joined Dallas Formula Racing to rebuild their sponsor database systems, where I discovered I loved mentoring junior developers just as much as teaching piano. I also joined the Undergraduate Dean's Council, which was a chaotic mess of disconnected spreadsheets. I almost dropped out my first semester, but instead I stepped up as Head of Finance and built Apollo, an internal ERP platform to handle university funding.
  • Age 20Apollo grew to run the entire organization, leading me to found a dedicated tech committee and serve as Head of Technology. That fall I joined the Nash Leaders Program, which cemented my drive to focus relentlessly on high-impact solutions.
  • Age 21I interned at Motorola Solutions as a Software Systems Technologist. Handed a vague request to improve a nine-person team's workflow, I treated time as a data problem and built a telemetry pipeline to track operator bottlenecks. The data-backed results caught leadership's attention immediately: I was pulled off routine intern busywork and given North American operational datasets to analyze. By applying game theory and behavioral psychology, my recommendations were expanded from my small team to a global rollout. I wrote the long version on LinkedIn.
  • Today I'm conducting financial research, helping small businesses modernize their infrastructure, and building my own software tools.

I Like

Travel / Geography

  • I am originally from northwestern America—born there, raised for about a week before my family moved to Tennessee in 2006 and Utah in 2008.
  • 2012My dad moved us to New Zealand. We visited Australia and Japan that year.
  • 2013We moved back to the States and relocated to Dallas, Texas, which became my home for the next decade.
  • 2015I traveled to Mexico.
  • 2016I visited Canada and cut my face open near Niagara Falls.
  • 2018I traveled throughout Washington and Oregon.
  • 2024I lived in Spain with my two brothers and traveled Portugal.
  • 2025I moved back to Texas.

Fun Facts

  • I ran an analysis to find out how many dollars my team at Motorola spent saying goodbye in the office every day (~$6,700 annually).
  • I was born with really poor taste buds and can't really taste sour things.
  • I'm horrible with names, so I carry a small notepad everywhere I go.
  • I'm the youngest of six—my siblings include triplets and twins, and I am neither.

I Dream Of

  • Having one unique idea of my very own that I can contribute to humanity.
  • Developing a better way to interface with the collection of human knowledge on the internet.
  • Never running out of things to learn.
  • Being able to bench 225.
  • Meeting people who make me feel dumb.