About

Started with a full-stack web development course and a physical notebook covering everything from HTML structure to JavaScript events, still on the shelf. Web development and client projects came before any formal coursework, which made the transition into a university engineering program feel less like starting from zero.

Enrolled at the University of Kansas as a Computer Science student, then switched to Cybersecurity Engineering at the start of junior year. Security demands understanding how systems work at every layer, not just how to use them. That discipline is harder to skip in security than in general software development. That's the point.

Fast, AI-assisted building produced real products: a shipped iOS app, freelance client sites, an LLM-powered assistant at a company. It also made the limits clear. AI can generate code. It cannot own a codebase. Learning the fundamentals is what makes fast building sustainable and the output trustworthy.