About

I think of myself as a builder and a systems thinker. I’m interested in how complex things fit together, but also in a more philosophical question: what are we actually trying to make, and what is it for?

I came to software through philosophy. Before that, I had studied mathematics, and while teaching logic and studying the philosophy of computation, I began to realize that there was a side of my thinking I had never fully explored. Programming immediately appealed to me because it forces ideas to become concrete. In philosophy, an idea can remain abstract for a long time. In engineering, eventually the thing has to work. You build something, observe what happens, revise it, and try again.

That process has shaped the kinds of projects I enjoy most. I like taking a problem, understanding the whole system around it, finding the right components, and making them work together. One of my first substantial projects was an educational tool that lets students turn annotations on a text into visual argument diagrams. Since then, I’ve built everything from private, locally hosted AI tools to real-time learning environments where students and teachers can interact with language models together. What I find most satisfying is the moment when the individual pieces become a functioning whole.

The question I keep returning to is how technology can make people more capable rather than simply doing more things for them. Understanding is not merely instrumental: learning something changes the person who learns it. I’m especially interested in technology as a genuine learning environment—something that can provide the right challenges, experiences, and feedback to help people develop richer memories, broader knowledge, and stronger ways of thinking.

That interest in turning ideas into something tangible extends beyond software. I draw and paint, build miniatures and things around the house, and cook whenever I can. I also like walking and cycling in nature, where moving slowly through a landscape reveals its shape and details in a way that passing through it quickly never does. In one form or another, I seem to keep coming back to the same activity: paying attention to how things are put together, and trying to make something that works.