About Me

I'll spend an hour untangling a knot in a strand of yarn rather than give up and cut it off. The mess of detangling is part of what I love.

I spent 13 years teaching in NYC public schools and 10 leading a nonprofit focused on learning how to learn. The work I loved most was systemic: reimagining how an organization could serve its community, finding connections between ideas that didn't obviously belong together, and building something new from those threads in collaboration with others. That process taught me something important about myself. I think in systems, I make connections that aren't always obvious, and I thrive when I can iterate on ideas with others.

I discovered software engineering almost by accident. I was volunteering for a nonprofit, cleaning up a messy database. The more I worked on it, the more I saw the possibilities of what it could become, the problems that could arise, and potential paths to fix them. Following those possibilities led me to learn to code. I untangled every knot I found, going far beyond what they'd asked, and having so much fun doing it that the next step became obvious.

What I love most about software engineering isn't any particular technology, but the process. Building something with other people. That feeling when you're stuck on a problem, turning it over, and then one of you finds the thread.