About Me

I've always been the kind of person who needs to know how things actually work, not just that they work.

Growing up, I spent most of my time in the pool. From age seven through eighth grade, I was a competitive swimmer. It was a lot of early mornings and a lot of pressure, and honestly by the end of it I was pretty burned out.

But looking back, that time shaped a lot of how I approach things now. Showing up consistently, even when you don't feel like it, kind of just became second nature.

When I took a technology class at school and got introduced to coding, I was hooked pretty quickly. What got me wasn't just writing code, it was the fact that I could actually make something real with it.

I started digging into how hardware works, how software runs, all of it. That curiosity eventually led me to study computer science at Bowling Green State University, where I'm now specializing in cybersecurity.

Through my internships I got to actually see how the internet works from the inside. At McKinley Rice I built full-stack web applications for real products, which gave me a real sense of how the things we use every day actually get made.

Then at ShinwooTNS I moved into cloud security, working on protecting infrastructure and helping distributed teams work remotely in a secure way. That's when it really clicked for me. Everything online was built and is being protected by real people, and I want to be one of those people on the security side.