My Story

I come from a less than conventional background, when I was 15 I joined San Francisco Ballet as a professional dancer. I had the opportunity to travel with the company and perform on stages around the world. It was an amazing experience and I gained many skills that have proven to be invaluable as I transition to Software Engineer.

I had always been interested in computers, and when the pandemic started I began teaching myself Python. I quickly realized this was something I wanted to devote myself to and continued finding resources and building small projects to practice. One of the first projects I built was in Swift, I was bored of tutorials and decided to try building a cocktail generator which I downloaded onto my phone for my friends to use.

I continued my side projects and was accepted into Hack Reactor. I worked in Python and Javascript and got some experience with with SQL databases and Heroku deployment. I continued to build projects and learn how to work through problems until graduating in November ‘24.

For the past two years I have been employed as a backend software engineer at Raya, an exclusive membership-based dating platform, where I contributed to both the core dating product and the company's expansion into travel technology. My work spanned multiple domains, from internal tooling to user-facing features, utilizing a modern tech stack including PostgreSQL, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, TypeScript, JavaScript, and Python.

I am looking forward to continuing to learn and gain experience while working with people making an impact in the world. I am always open to connections, if you or anyone you know is looking for a software engineer please connect with me or leave your information on the contact page.