About Me

I am inspired by the belief that technology has the potential to level barriers to access and provide transparency to complex collaboration, ultimately shifting the zero-sum mentality we have today. I am passionate about open source knowledge systems. Tools like the Internet Archive are for the future what Voyager is to the unknown. Collective intelligence makes knowledge better by opening the process of knowledge creation to criticism and veracity, both creating space and removing barriers for collective stewardship.

In fourth grade I guessed the right amount of hershey kisses in a jar... It was about 350. In 8th grade, I received a & quot;Dont Hide Your Smarts & quot; Award after a school transfer - an ironic achievement for being a mediocre student.

11th grade is when I discovered One Piece.

Oda is love. Oda is life.

After high school, my path took unexpected turns. Initially dreaming of becoming an audio engineer in Spartanburg, South Carolina, financial constraints led me to community college. This detour introduced me to computer engineering through my friend Anthony.

At Clemson, despite academic struggles and loneliness, I found a community that believed in me. Special thanks to Bekk and Lorenzo for legitimizing my early coding endeavors.

My career path included stints at a startup, research at Clemson's TRACE Lab, and attendance at a coding bootcamp, formerly known as Lambda School. I am not sure what it is known as today. Eventually I was able to contribute to open source technologies and decentralized knowledge frameworks, where I found my passion for building tools that make technology more accessible and knowledge more open.

I find flowers and trees to be the only things that keep from that abyss staring back at me we call the future. Yes, the stamen keeps the panic away. The panic of knowing my life will end is baited by the fresh hibiscus and lavender i grew hanging in my room. Ahhh, what horror it is to know time passes me. So thankful for angiosperms for keeping me sane. Send me an email on how you get by. Don't be weird about it though. Unless I know you. Then be weird. But I will snitch. So not too weird. Like if you eat mash potatoes with your hands sans fufu or like wrapping yourself in saran wrap every now and then. I don't like those things. You might though. Weirdo.