I didn't start out as a developer. I went to the University of New Mexico for Electrical Engineering, which wasn't a bad path, just not the right one. Somewhere along the way I took a programming class, picked up a part-time IT support gig on campus, and started spending time around people who could actually build things with code. That was enough to change the direction.

After graduating I packed up and moved to Los Angeles with HTML, CSS, and a solid grip on jQuery. That was the whole toolkit. I did an internship, then landed at CASHét, a fintech startup that turned out to be one of my favorite places I've ever worked. Not because of the stack (PHP and PostgreSQL, humble beginnings), but because of the people. That team taught me what it actually means to ship production code, work in a codebase others depend on, and keep up in an environment that moves fast.

From there it kept going. Indica Labs, then Potentia Analytics, where I've been since 2021. The resume covers the details better than I can here.

What keeps me in this field is the full arc of it: finding the problem, figuring out the solution, building it, and shipping something that people actually use. That last part matters the most. A lot of code never sees the light of day. The stuff that does, that's what gets me going.

Outside of work I'm usually with my wife, out on the mountain bike, or behind a camera. I shoot with a Sony ZV-E1 and I care maybe a little too much about filters and color profiles. When I'm not doing any of that I'm probably building another side project. This blog exists partly because of that habit.