Hi there, welcome!

I write code, essays and play the violin.

Code

I worked as a full stack and mobile engineer at Whitepages (2018–2019), then at Amazon's AWS EC2 and PXT orgs (2019–2024). I left Amazon in June 2024 and took a half year sabbatical.

I've been an engineering partner at the Internet Development Studio Company of Seattle since Jan 2025, working on numerous open source initiatives and full stack projects.

Words

By my father's influence, I grew up very fond of writing. One of my parents’ proudest memories was me publishing quite a few poems and essays on a couple of different local newspapers when I was in elementary school.

In recent years, first inspired by Ryder Carroll's Bullet Journal, then by my friends Allen and Weichen, followed by wonderful contemporary authors such as James Clear, Morgan Housel and Derek Sivers, I’m reinvigorated to pick up the pen and renewed my love of committing words to paper.

Most recently, I was honored to receive an honorable mention from the 2024 iA Writer Award

Music

I played the piano for over 10 years when I was a boy. After moving to Seattle in April 2018, I walked into David Stone's violin shop and got a starter violin, then started lessons with Beverly Gilyeart. I later commissioned a violin from Eduard Miller in 2019 and still play it.