About Me

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My fascination with technology started when I was 12, trying to figure out how to set up TeamSpeak servers so my friends and I could game together. That curiosity led me down the rabbit hole of Linux and cloud deployment, and I’ve been hooked ever since.

In high school, I created Mikasa, a Discord bot that exploded to over 15,000 concurrent users across thousands of servers, handling three million queries a month. Building and scaling Mikasa taught me the thrill of real-world systems and the importance of listening to users, what they actually need versus what I thought they wanted. Music streaming was a hit, moderation tools not so much. These lessons naturally pushed me toward breaking things into smaller, focused services long before I knew the fancy term “microservices.”

Life threw me a curveball when a major earthquake forced my family to relocate, putting my tech journey on hold for two years. But once I got to college, I was eager to get back into it and landed two engineering jobs during my freshman year.

These days, I’m all about making things faster and more reliable. Whether I’m building trading infrastructure that processes 107 million messages per second or notification services handling 77 million monthly requests, I get genuinely excited about turning slow, clunky systems into something elegant and lightning fast. There’s something deeply satisfying about taking an API that responds in 420ms and getting it down to 315ms, or watching a deployment process that used to take days happen in just hours.

What drives me is the moment when everything clicks and a system just works beautifully, serving real people solving real problems.