Hobbies
Sailing
I've worked as a sailing instructor at the Corinthian Yacht Club of Seattle, and was captain of my high school's varsity sailing team. I also once capsized a boat three times during one race.
I mostly sail FJs, but I have a great time in V15s, 420s, and Lasers when I get the chance.
Server Management
This includes cost and compute optimization, in addition to analyzing issues like latency and network bottlenecks.
In the Spring of 2025, I worked with Cal Poly ASI Student Government, where I set up, maintained, and administrated a Minecraft server instance for a series of community events.
I also set up and adminstrated my high school's official Minecraft server.
I usually host these servers on Oracle Cloud infrastructure. Did you know that signing up for the free tier gets you a box with 32GB RAM and 4 vCPUs? (accurate June 2025)
Magic: The Gathering
I'm a certified tournament Judge, meaning that I oversee events and manage the complicated rules & policy interactions that occur in tournament gameplay.
I've worked at several events in the greater Seattle area, including two ComicCons and a $20K RCQ / ReCQ at MXP Tacoma.
(MXP had 400+ players per event!)
I’ve also competed in tournaments, and have two top 8 placements in Modern Regional Championship Qualifiers.
Sci-Fi
I'm a big fan of the sci-fi genre, especially in literature. Here's some I could talk for hours about:
Text
- Contact - Carl Sagan
- 1984 - George Orwell
- I, Robot - Isaac Asimov
- Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
- Worm (serial)- John McCrae
- Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
- I Am Legend - Richard Matheson
- Jurassic Park - Michael Chrichton
- Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut
- The Andromeda Strain - Michael Chrichton
- The Three Body Problem (series) - Cixin Liu
Video
- Brazil (1985)
- Primer (2004)
- Inception (2010)
- District 9 (2009)
- Coherence (2013)
- Devs (series) (2020)
- Severance (series) (2022 - )
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
- The Twilight Zone (series) (1959 - 1964)