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About

I've been deeply interested in technology from a young age - probably thanks to my dad's side hustle of fixing computers. Seeing computer parts all over the floor and running ipconfig in Windows XP terminals piqued my interest.

Then, in middle school, I started jailbreaking my classmate's iPods for money. I went through the script kiddie phase. I tried hosting a Wordpress site but CPanel, DNS records, PHP, client-server architecture, and a 200kbps internet speed in my rural area proved too frustrating and complex for my then-low attention span. I went back to playing Call of Duty. I didn't actually start coding until my last year of high school.

I was so excited my school had just added AP Computer Science to the curriculum in time for my senior year. My entire class struggled hard, with all but one of us getting a 1, the lowest possible score (the one exception came in already knowing how to code). This motivated me to actually learn to build software, leading to me stumbling across Harvard's CS50 MOOC and finishing it over the summer.