About

📌 Hello!

I'm a Mississippi native from the Memphis metro area that currently lives in Sydney, Australia. I grew up a huge Zelda fan, still game when I have the time, and read every day. My family is multicultural so I study Chinese to help communicate with my other half's side (a work in progress 😂). We both enjoy travelling and met each other while on an exchange in Tokyo, Japan.

🧑‍💻 My career and what I work with

I work as a software engineer on a SaaS product team in the cybersecurity industry. As for my tech stack, I work with Angular/Ionic or React/Next on the Frontend, Node on the backend. and Firebase / GCP in the cloud. I've worked with plenty of other frontend frameworks like Vue and do data analysis and visulization in either Python or R. I have some experience with Go, but use TypeScript, Python, HTML/CSS/MD pretty much every day.

Currently, I'm a proud member of the wonderful team at Cynch Security. There, I build and maintain the cyber fitness platform - a risk management tool designed to bring plain language security actions to small businesses. We prioritize helping folks improve their cybersecurity by an ongoing, resiliency approach called cyber fitness. I love working on the team as we're like a big family working toward a fulfilling mission to help folks stay protected in the digital world.

All views and opinions are my own or belong to whoever is named on the byline 😄

🛠️ Tools I use to build stuff:

Feel free to skip this if you're a normie, but for the nerds, enjoy:

• Repo Host: Github, Bitbucket
• CI/CD: Actions, Pipelines (respectively)
• BaaS: Firebase (Auth, Functions, Hosting, Testing, Monitoring, etc...)
• Database: Firestore, Neo4j, Airtable, MongoDB, MySQL
• Customer Experience: Intercom (Product Tours, Comms w A/B Testing, Live Chat)
• Frameworks: Angular, React, Next, Ionic, Vue
• Editor: VS Code, Jupyter, Spyder, Anaconda, R Studio
• OS: Prefer Ubuntu or Debian in WSL, Windows

📈 More about my background

Originally, I studied Economics, Math, and Japanese at the University of Memphis and completed an exchange program at Meiji University in Tokyo during my senior year. Following this, I moved to Australia and studied Quantitative Finance at the University of Technology Sydney.

In every class possible, I enhanced what I was doing with coding out of a passion for technology whether required or not. For example, I did so in Calculus and Differential Equations classes by making elaborate and thorough guides in LaTeX to feel more organized (Though I also got sick of handwriting everything, especially when we hit trig subs 😵‍💫).

After years of this and learning Python and Javascript for data analysis and stats, I came to a decision to change career paths away from finance, postpone finishing my masters progra, and began working as a software engineer. Haven't looked back because I love what I do!