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## About Me

### Me

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  <p><small><i>bellevue, washington across the water and a small critter.</i></small></p>
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I'm a 22 year old programmer with a few years of industry experience under my belt, currently at AWS. I
graduated from Utah State University in 2023 at 20 with a degree in CS and a minor in math. I live in Seattle with my partners and my dog.

### What I Do

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  <p><small><i>sourdough, and some lime scooters where they ought to be parked.</i></small></p>
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Most of my day is spent designing, writing, and communicating about distributed software systems. A lot of it is plumbing (I'm not a huge fan of this part, but for some reason it's the part that pays a lot and "has visibility").
But every once in a while I find diamonds in the rough, deep technical topics that require the application of real theory, which somehow seem to go undiscovered.

Those are the problems I love. When I come across them, I work as hard as possible to uncover as much as possible. That often turns out to be a nothing-burger.
But sometimes, underneath that tracing lies a <i>tremendous</i> find that no one else would have caught. This part of my job is what I get an insane amount of
dopamine from. It's what I've loved about computers my whole life; finding needles in haystacks.

I also love baking sourdough bread. I love taking long uphill runs at the end of a day in the dark of night. I love reading and obsessively learning as much as I can about, objectively,
the most fascinating creatures there are: penguins. I love taking long train rides, anime,
Rubik's cubes, nice mechanical keyboards, music, collecting stickers and stuffies, the coziness of a storm
and being wrapped in a blanket.

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