About Me

I enjoy problem solving and being around people who do too. I highly value being in learning communities which led me to joining CSUMB's competitive programming team. We placed 18th out of 73 teams at the 2025 ICPC Pacific Northwest Regional, which was a great experience and something I want to keep building on.

That same drive shows up outside of CS too. I play soccer, swim, and run games with friends regularly. Most of the people I spend time with are also into competition or problem solving in some form, whether that's sports, games, or just trying to figure something out together.

My curiosity is what pulled me into CS. It's a field where you can apply your skills almost anywhere, which matters to me because I don't want to be boxed in. That same curiosity led me to research. I have ADHD, and when a problem hits right, that becomes an advantage. I can hyperfocus and just go at it!

I'm part of CTI's CSin3 program, an accelerated path to a CS bachelor's in three years split between Hartnell College and CSUMB. During my time at Hartnell I worked as a tutor and eventually became lead tutor at the Alisal satellite campus. I tutored Computer Science and Mathematics.

Teaching something is a good way to find out how well you actually understand it. Tutoring pushed me to get sharper on the fundamentals and figure out how to explain things in different ways depending on who I was working with. It also surrounded me with a lot of super smart colleagues who I still keep in contact with!

I've started contributing to open source and I enjoy it more than I expected. So far I've contributed to p5.js and git-extras. My main p5.js contribution was building a URL parameter feature for the p5.js Web Editor that lets educators share version-specific sketch links, something around 200K monthly users benefit from. It was my first time working in a large production codebase and navigating that was a good challenge on its own.

Outside of that I've been doing hackathons. It was pretty rough as my first experience was at UC Berkeley's AI Hackathon when I was a freshman. After that I finished 3rd at CSUMB's OtterHacks winning some nice headphones. My most recent experience was CSUMB's Kelp Your Neighbor hackathon where my group worked on a local event finder with carpooling functionality. Making the interactive map was a lot of fun to learn how to do.