About

One of my favorite moments in life is meeting someone chasing the purpose they were made for. Someone living so deep inside their ikigai. That rare alignment of love, mastery, contribution, and craft. You feel it within seconds. The air around them sings. You're jolted awake. There's a frequency that radiates off them. An aliveness, a sense of freedom, and this inexplicable joy. Once you've felt it, you can't un-want it. You want it for them. You want it for yourself. And you want to spend the rest of your life chasing it down.

I love timed intensity. Pick a toolset, bound the problem, race toward the finish line with everyone in the room heads-down. Hackathons are the closest vehicle I've found to chase that energy. Outside hackathons I run cross-functional ramps, operate short-term rentals, and enjoy breaking down complex systems to understand exactly how they work. Satisfaction comes from making them work better.

A decade shipping consumer hardware at Apple and Meta. iPad Pro, Apple Special Projects, now Ray-Ban Display. Cross-functional convergence — mechanical, electrical, firmware, supply chain, factory ops — under real deadlines, across nine factory cities and four-plus time zones. Bilingual English / 中文, which turns out to matter on the factory floor in China at midnight.

Outside the day job I tinker. Building AI agents on weekends, showing up at hackathons around SF (the fastest way I've found to learn), and operating a five-property short-term-rental brand on software I write myself.

Based in San Francisco · Systems Industrial Engineering, Purdue '08