About me

I've always had this feeling that there is something exciting out there, just beyond what I currently understand. Something to discover, take apart, or learn how to build. I genuinely believe there is something new to learn at every stage of life. That curiosity has stayed with me through a lot.

As a kid, I was fascinated by people like Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and Elon Musk, and by the idea that technology could change what was possible. I wanted to understand the things they built. I'm still that nerd. Give me some hardware, a difficult problem, and time to explore, and I can happily lose an entire day. Learning something new is one of the things I enjoy most.

I also live with ADHD. My mind often follows several threads at once, notices patterns, and makes unexpected connections. That can be exciting, but sensory overload and being stuck in my own head can also be difficult. I don't want to romanticize either side. I'm learning how to work with the way my mind works.

That's part of why this moment in AI feels so personal to me. I believe it could be an extraordinary time for neurodivergent people. For me, AI helps bridge the distance between a head full of ideas and something I can actually try. I can brainstorm, explore a concept, and move into building while the idea is still alive. Execution becomes more accessible, but judgment and understanding are still my responsibility.

Life hasn't always been easy. I spent more than twenty years suffering from primary hyperparathyroidism. Those years, and the feeling of being caught in my own head, are part of why I feel such an urgency to do something meaningful now. I want to contribute, to be someone others can count on, and to achieve things I can feel proud of. For me, building is a way to turn that desire into something tangible.

I'm an entrepreneur and a problem-driven engineer by instinct. I care about the products and projects I take on, and I want to see them through from the first question to something that works for someone else. There is so much worth building outside established processes. I believe we need more pace, but I also believe moving faster means taking ownership of the consequences, not leaving them for somebody else.

That curiosity has taken me through IT consulting and digital transformation in the public sector to AI security engineering in the defense industry. Today, I bring it to adversarial testing, applied research, autonomous tooling, and compliance engineering. I want to help build technology people can trust because we've done the work to understand and test it. There is still so much to learn. That's what keeps me interested.