I BUILD THE GAPBETWEEN“IMAGINE IF…”AND“OPEN THE LINK.”

I learned how to rebuild long before I learned how to code.

I was born blind and deaf and lived with those limitations through the earliest years of my childhood.

When my world began opening up around the age of six, learning wasn't simply about catching up. In many ways, it meant learning how to experience things that other children had already been building familiarity with for years — sound, sight, language, patterns, memory, communication, and how the different pieces of the world connected.

My brain and my way of learning had to adapt. Things that might have developed naturally for someone else often became things I had to approach deliberately, differently, and repeatedly until they became mine.

I grew up understanding that long before I had the language for it. What it meant in practice: I had to relearn, rebuild, create new ways of processing information, and adapt how I understood the world.

That experience followed me into everything. When I encounter something I don't understand, my instinct is to investigate it. When a system breaks, I want to know why. When someone says something cannot be done, my brain immediately starts asking: “According to who?”

That curiosity eventually found technology. And technology felt strangely familiar. Code is complicated until you understand the pattern. Systems are intimidating until you understand how the pieces communicate. A problem feels impossible until you break it into smaller problems.

Maybe that's part of why engineering made sense — I'd already spent a lifetime learning how to do exactly that.

IMPOSSIBLE HAS ALWAYS
SOUNDED TEMPORARY TO ME.

I don't always know how yet. “Yet” is the important part.

Tap a marker — see how it connects.

My background as a former emergency first responder in law enforcement shaped the way I think about responsibility, safety, information, and what happens when technology meets real people in real situations.

Over the years, my technical and investigative skills have taken me far beyond building websites.

I've used technology to help locate missing children. I've helped reconnect families.

I've worked with communities to better understand:

Those experiences are part of why I don't see technology as something separate from people.

To me, the most interesting question is never simply: “Can we build it?” It's also: “Who does it help once we do?”