Currently, I consider myself a software engineer with a heavy focus on back-end systems. When I have free time, I enjoy cooking/baking, and coincidentally, my colleague and I have created a website, Net Pantry, that allows people to manage recipes.

I began my journey into software development during my freshman year of high school. I was the programmer for one of my school’s VEX robotics teams, 6403B, where I started with a language called robotc. I had no idea how software development worked, so my first year was a lot of learning, most of it being self-taught. During this year, the team I was competing with ended up qualifying for the world championship. We had a lot of fun, but I knew I had to learn a lot more since the team captain and other members were graduating. The next year VEX introduced new hardware and software; programmers could now write plain C/C++ using a library called PROS to interface with the hardware. My love for software development grew rapidly from this point. During my junior year, our team qualified for worlds again and placed 2nd in the Ohio state tournament. Unfortunately, the COVID-19 pandemic stopped worlds from happening during my junior and senior years of high school.