Hello! I'm an adventurer and scholar, lover of the universe and its mysteries. You'll find me fascinated time and time again by nature, from its laws to its beauty.
Career-wise, I dabble in data engineering and I love finding optimal solutions to moving data around, a career that simultaneously slows down dementia and funds my adventures!
I'm always open to deepening connections with anyone who's up for a challenge. If you want to study with me or adventure to some country or mountain, just knock on my door.
Some History
- 1999, August: Born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
- 2016, June: Left Florida for the first time to a summer camp in Virginia.
- 2017, August: Moved to Massachusetts to attend MIT.
- 2020, June: Moved to Iowa during COVID and learned how to drive.
- 2021, March: Lived on a farm in New Hampshire during my last semester, tending to garden crops, animals, and maple sugaring.
- 2021, June: Road tripped across the country, covering most of the East Coast, South, and Midwest.
- 2021, September: Started my first job at BioBright (owned by Dotmatics).
- 2021, September: Left the country for the first time on a drive to Montreal and Quebec City.
- 2022, August: Extended 4-week stay in London, where I shaved my head for the first time since 2015.
- 2022, November: Started my second job at Klaviyo.
- 2024, January: Traveled for 5 months in extended stays across several US cities: New Orleans, Houston, Miami, Atlanta, DC, Philly.
- 2025, May: Cooked and ate my first foraged mushroom. I think it was a Berkeley Polypore, but May is a bit too early.
- 2025, June: Passed the WSET Level 3.
Hobbies
- Mountaineering / Backpacking
- Mushroom Foraging and Mycology
- Wine Tasting and Oenology
- Science Readings and Writing
- Video Games
- Classic Cinema
- Music Album Reviews
- Guitar
- Hula Hooping
Favorites Genres
Music:
- Post-Punk
- Gothic
- Shoegaze
- Dream Pop
- Doom Metal
- Jazz Rap
- Synth-Pop
- Plunderphonics
- Psychedelia
Cinema:
- French New Wave
- German Expressionism
- Spaghetti Westerns
- Avant-Garde / Experimental
- Psychological Horror / Thriller
Video Games:
- Nintendo
- Retro (80s-00s)
- Simulators / Sandbox
Achievements
- Passed 19 AP exams, through a combination of in-person classes (mostly), online classes, and some self-studied.
- I have all 3 types of AP Scholar Awards: from no award (freshman), to AP Scholar (sophomore), to AP Scholar with Honor (junior), to AP Scholar with Distinction (senior). Demonstrates how I sucked at the start and barely passed, but eventually figured out how to get near straight 5's.
- Created my own conlang with a 20-page partial grammar document detailing its phonetics, orthography, syntax, and semantics. Originally based on a Ben 10 fan fiction I had written a decade prior.
- Listened and reviewed every album in 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die over the course of 3 years
- I can speed cube in under a minute using CFOP... if I'm lucky.
- Passed the WSET Level 3 in Wine, purely motivated by wanting to know what's going on in 3/4 of a liquor store.
- I have minimal reading comprehension in Spanish, French, and German. Please don't speak to me yet.
Travel / Geography
Dreams and Ambitions
- Climb the high points of each US state (so far: 25/50)
- Climb the 7 World Summits (so far: 1/7) and complete the Explorer's Grand Slam
- Jam in a band
- Make educational videos about science