How I got here.

Before I wrote a line of production code, I was running cable and programming light boards backstage in theater — learning that a live system either works exactly when it needs to, or it doesn't work at all. That mindset followed me into electronics: CNC machining, PCB design, VHDL. There's no partial credit when a circuit is wrong.

Software turned out to be the same discipline with a faster feedback loop. I bring the same instinct for systems — how the parts fit together, what breaks under load, where the real constraint is — to every web app and client project I take on. It's why I default to simple, well-structured solutions over clever ones.