As such, it is my absolute passion and honor to be both a leader and a learner in the endeavor of creating ambitious software that alters the trajectory of reality forever.

I have alway been interested in things bigger than myself. Ever since my childhood, I have constantly pursued involvement in efforts that help people experience the surreal feeling of unity while living life to the fullest with one another.

Luckily, I grew up in an era where, before my very eyes, technology evolved into facilitating the completely connected reality that we all live in today. There was a constant stream of people building technology that was changing the world. I was hooked — I needed to be a part of the global effort to innovate in ways that were literally propelling the world towards greater unity, love, and justice. The era I grew up in destroyed social silos and forced the world to acknowledge and attempt to holistically understand itself — an endeavor that we are all still in the middle of today.

While in elementary school — driven by what was evolving in the world around me — I began tinkering with both web and game development. I learned how to figure out what I needed to know when I needed to know it — often bringing home numerous books from the local library. I practiced collaborating with friends on projects much bigger than just one person. I dreamed of the things I would build. I experimented with numerous languages, frameworks, graphics, networking, and infrastructure. I embraced my fascinations, and I learned a ton because of it.

After high school, I went on to Seattle Pacific University to get my Computer Science (BS) degree. While there, on top of the regular curriculum that formalized my foundation as an engineer, I worked closely with professors to study emerging technologies like machine learning. Throughout my studies, I earned income by consulting for various organizations on projects related to modern banking systems, internet radio networks, secure blogging platforms, and more.

Eventually, I graduated and was given the opportunity to work in the aerospace industry on avionics hardware and software. I had never before been responsible for overcoming the challenges of making software and hardware work together — I learned a ton. It was in this role that I gained a huge respect and appreciation for international standards that bodies of diverse individuals write together in order to facilitate the creation of technology that interoperates to unify the world. These standards are the reason why practically everything in the modern world is able to interoperate today.

Eventually, my wife and I moved back home from Washington to Colorado. I was given another golden opportunity to work for a startup building the next generation of enterprise resource management software. I still work at this company today. I am constantly learning how to better collaborate with other smart people to build incredibly resilient, ridiculously performant systems that are changing my industry and the world as a whole every day.