Building thingsthat feel alive.

Most of my time outside class goes to FlagForge, an open-source capture-the-flag platform — I maintain the backend, review community contributions, and write the documentation that gets new contributors up to speed. Writing challenges for a CTF means thinking like the person trying to break your work, a habit that's changed how I write everything else.

Before engineering paid, marketing did. Two years running social media and e-commerce for Woollyfelt and Woollyes — listings, campaigns, and the customer side most developers never see — is where I learned what actually makes someone leave a page.