What I do

I fell in love with computers really back when I was about 11 years old. I loved Mario Kart Wii at the time, and watching people on YouTube (TWD98 in particular!). I wanted to learn how people hacked the Wii. To no surprise, the foreign C-code and Assembly code (PowerPC if I recall correctly) immediately intimidated me, but I soon found a comfortable start with web development and took on HTML, CSS, and JavaScript for a couple of years to tinker with.

That eventually gave way to learning Minecraft mod development and learning Java. Dabbling in game development with Java (The Cherno was a big inspiration for me at the time). After some more time I started getting into some lower level programming with Rust and C, and that is currently what piques my interest. Particularly, in the context of programming languages and compilers.

For my day job I primarily work with Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, and some front-end work with React and Typescript, with the occasional .NET if need be.

Work history

Jun 2024 - Present Software Engineer @ Thomson Reuters

I joined a team under the Westlaw product at Thomson Reuters, leading integration of GenAI and LLMs into an online legal research service.

I took a month long vacation between graduation and starting full-time to travel to Ireland and the United Kingdom!

Mar 2022 - May 2024 Software Engineer Intern @ Maverick Software/Thomson Reuters

I was a contracted out to Thomson Reuters through Maverick Software. I initially did QA work on a B2B REST API. Later on, I switched to a modernization effort to bring our existing applications from running on on-prem hardware to running in AWS.

Projects

I am working on getting some projects together and cleaned up. For now, it would be best to check out my GitHub.