Story
I started at seventeen because I wanted proof. Not a résumé line or a course certificate — something running in the world that a real person depends on to get paid on Friday. The first thing I shipped was a site for a landscaping crew who had been sending quotes by text message.
The unsexy work turned out to be the best training I could have bought. A landscaper's website isn't a design artifact, it's a conversion system with a payroll attached. A quoting workflow isn't a form, it's a model of somebody's time, trust, and margin. Get it wrong and you hear about it the same week, which is a much faster teacher than a syllabus.
So I learned to read a business the way you'd read a machine: where the friction sits, which variable actually moves, what should be automated and what should never be. Python for the parts that repeat. Design for the parts that persuade. Judgment for everything left over.
My work runs downstream of my faith. I want the growth I help build to be worth having built — durable, honest, and good for the people on the other end of it. That constraint has never once cost me a result.
What I'm working toward is a seat at an early-stage company where I own execution instead of describing it. Until then I'm doing the reps in public and publishing the notes.