My Story

I started at Duke University studying Engineering — understanding how things work has always driven me. Covid hit during my first year, and online learning wasn't it. I failed two classes, took a leave, moved to Colorado, worked at a coffee shop, and snowboarded. I came back, switched to Computer Science, and graduated with my B.S.

After graduating, I joined Builder Clarity as their first engineer — a small consulting business helping contractors automate and integrate their systems. No tutorials, no senior engineers, no existing product. Just real clients and a directive to figure it out. I built low-code automations in Zapier, ETL pipelines feeding custom dashboards in Supabase and Metabase, and eventually tackled our most complex project: a multi-tenant JobTread↔GoHighLevel integration that connected CRM leads directly to job records, eliminating manual entry and data drift across client accounts. Building it taught me as much about managed auth and credential handling at scale as it did about what contractors actually need from their software.

The company didn't scale fast enough, and I was let go. I'm okay with that. It was a real engineering environment, and I learned more there than I would have anywhere else.

I'm currently an apprentice at MAXX Potential, continuing to build my skills through structured mentorship and client-facing project work.

I'm also building projects where I'm the target user. The first is a skate video classifier: submit a long session video, and the app automatically identifies and tracks each individual skater across clips using multi-object tracking and person re-identification — no facial recognition required. Each skater's footage gets bucketed and distributed to the right person. The second is a snowboard street spot tracker — a mobile-first app for logging and organizing street spots, with structured data on approach speed, gear combinations, feature specs, and security risk, built for the way snowboarders actually scout and plan sessions.