The Developer
I bought my first MacBook in 2022 with money saved from working field service on commercial refrigeration systems at Hussmann, opened Xcode to see how apps were made, and got hooked. Today I'm a senior Computer Science major at Colorado State University (graduating May 2027, back-to-back Dean's List with a 4.0 in Fall 2025) with seven apps on the App Store.
- From scratch when depth matters: I wrote every line of KanaCard by hand to master SwiftUI gesture physics and the SM-2 spaced-repetition algorithm, and built the native macOS client that streamed live UV sensor data from a teammate's Raspberry Pi in Florida to my screen in Colorado.
- AI-accelerated when speed matters: To ship and maintain seven apps across five Apple platforms alongside full-time classes, I direct Claude Code and Google Antigravity for implementation while owning the architecture, simulator test tours, and release pipeline myself.
- Obsessed with the whole product: I love the work that happens after the code compiles: dialing in haptics and VoiceOver support, digging into MetricKit crash logs, and shipping monthly updates that grew downloads 150%+ year-over-year.