Obsessive thinker and tinkerer, making it up as I go. ©

First and foremost, I love writing code. Ever since writing my first program in Python and manipulating it to produce the desired output, I have been obsessed with the idea of using software to solve practical problems. Software engineering is a never-ending puzzle that I am passionately engaged in solving. I believe in the power of programming to transform and improve the lives of people around the world. As I went through the BASIC tutorial, it was almost magic, being able to get the computer to do whatever I wanted, just by typing in these funny little symbols, limited only by my own imagination and ingenuity. Throughout middle and high school, I latched on to any ideas for projects I could get, moving from "Hello World" all the way to a simple First Person Shooter engine, with dozens of projects in between. I learned Python, then C++, tearing through any books I could find on anything remotely related to software development. I was insatiable. ©