I got into programming by shipping something real. I built and published a game on Steam while still in high school: 14,000 lines of C#, 50,000+ players across 115 countries. That set the trajectory for everything that followed.
Since then I've interned at TechSmith (C++ licensing for Snagit and Camtasia) and Charles Schwab (real-time distributed systems for fractional trading: Java, Spring Boot, Kafka). This summer I'm interning at Microsoft on Azure hyperscale networking.
Now I'm an MSE student in CSE at the University of Michigan, where I'm a Graduate Student Instructor for EECS 281 (Data Structures & Algorithms) and co-developed EECS 291, a new Python-based applied DSA course, collaborating directly with the professor on curriculum and assignments.
These days my focus is on AI systems, specifically what it looks like when agents stop being toys and start doing real work. I'm building a multi-agent orchestration platform that runs 24/7, handling programming, research, writing, and code review autonomously.