I'm a computer engineer who loves numbers which is probably why I'm just as comfortable dealing a hand at the card table. I was raised in a small town, and I've kept its pace with me: I like calm, I like kin, and I have little patience for destructive noise.

Away from the screen you'll find me in the garden coaxing flowers along, on the yoga mat, lost in a novel, or losing gracefully at a board game. I keep cats, quietly and happily, even though my culture side-eyes me for it. And now and then I dance with Elysium Magna because a life of pure logic needs a little rhythm in it too.

Professionally, I work where software meets hardware: machine learning small enough to run on a microcontroller, sensors and actuators in the loop, decisions made on the device rather than in a data centre. My dissertation put a 91.5% F1 audio classifier onto an ESP32-S3 in 80.7 KB, so deaf students get alerted with no cloud and no network at all.

Building for unreliable power and connectivity isn't a limitation I work around — it's the brief I find most interesting. Constraints force honest engineering. Anything that survives them tends to work everywhere else too.