FAA certified private pilot with a high-performance endorsement. Every airport I've landed at: scroll or pinch to zoom, drag to pan, and click any airport for details.
Things I've built, broken, or kept running for the joy of understanding the stack a layer deeper.
Hotel and airplane Wi-Fi and an always-on VPN don't get along. This macOS menu bar app keeps my traffic on a private WireGuard exit node, steps aside just long enough for captive-portal logins, tells a sleeping laptop apart from a real outage, and puts everything back on its own. One menu switches between a private exit, my home connection, or no VPN.
Two lamps, linked over the internet. Tap the pad on one and both light up wherever they are; tap both within a couple of minutes and they switch to a shared animation. Each is an ESP32 driving a 16-LED ring with a capacitive touch pad, talking MQTT over TLS to a hosted broker. Setup is a Wi-Fi captive portal, so no app is needed.
Essays on money, work, and how to live. Each one is private; ask me for the password.
I grew up in the Bay Area around lakes and hangars, asking how things work and trying to solve them—chess, Rubik's cubes, tools, airplanes. That curiosity stuck.
I studied data science at Chapman University and swam division III there. I'm an investment partner at FoundersX, investing in the top founders across the world to shape the future.
I fly for perspective and fun. I build to learn and I try to move fast on things that matter.
Built the aerobic engine swimming D3 at Chapman; running picked up after. Follow along on Strava.
Around the Bay: Alice's in the Santa Cruz Mountains, Woodside Bakery, and the Palo Alto farmers market.
