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1. Need a
wizard?
You’ve come to the
right place!

2. I L I K E TO DA B B L E W IT H T H I N G S T H AT
O U G HT TO B E DA B B L E D W IT H .
TO P U T IT S I M P LY.
D E A R P OT E NT I A L E M P LOY E R …
to prove this, we’ll
have to go back in
time (naturally…)
TO N OT E
- virtual mii version of
myself is not to scale
- my favorite color is
in fact red contrary
to popular belief (I
wear blue a lot)
B U T I D O N ’ T C #
☝

3. so back in the day…(2006-2011)
• I wanted to be a vet (elementary school). 🐶🐨🐵
• But then I decided I wanted to be a biologist instead (middle
school). 💉💊💉
• But then I felt bioinformatics was more interesting than just
biology alone (high school). 💊💻💊
…
• And that would be that. 🔐
Did I mention I’ve kinda been an Apple fanatic since my freshman
year of high school?? Cause that’s kinda important.
📱
2007
iPhone arrives
📱
2010
iPad arrives
Apple Watch… not iWatch inception!

4. or so I thought…
As much as as much as I loved biology (and I still
do), I couldn’t actually see myself getting a
bachelor’s degree in biology.
To me, a bachelor’s in biology would equate to 4
years of drudgery in busy work where I would be
competing with a whole bunch of aspiring med
school students.
Also, I was starting to resent school in general
even though I was doing pretty well for most
academic standards.
PA S S .

5. M Y S TA N C E O N
F O R M A L E D U C AT I O N
Ever since high school, I’ve been kind of a rebel when it comes
to formal education. … I just don’t feel the current model is as
effective as it could be or as it was so I treated school as an
unfortunate necessity that I’d try to finish ASAP by trying to
fast forward through it (The anti-visual extremely wordy boring
PowerPoint lectures I had to always sit through didn’t help the
situation).
I was more into teaching myself what I wanted to know. And
ultimately, that’s my approach to everything now.
also, crap,
student
debt!
MUST
AVOID.
I set my own standards and
aspired to exceed them myself.

6. SO THEN I FIGURED, WELL,
WHY DON’T I JUST MAJOR IN
COMPUTER SCIENCE?
-me my junior year of high school
(turned out to be a major turning point in my life…)

7. S o f ro m 2 0 1 1 o n w a r d s , I d e c i d e d t o l e a r n a l l I c o u l d
a b o u t { c o d e } u s i n g a l l t h e f r e e r e s o u r c e s I c o u l d f i n d
o n l i n e .
I s t a r t e d a t t e n d i n g h a c k a t h o n s , m e r g i n g P R s , g o i n g t o M e e t u p s , s p e a k i n g
a t c o n fe r e n c e s , a n d p a r t i c i p a t i n g i n b o o t c a m p s ( I ’m i n a P M o n e n o w ! ) .

8. I r e a l i z e d a f t e r ro u g h l y a y e a r o f v e n t u r i n g i n t o t h e l a n d o f L i s p ( t h a t ’s a j o ke ) o n m y
o w n t h a t …
👀 ❤ { c o d e }
I l i ke d fe e l i n g l i ke t h i s k i n d o f a d i g i t a l w i z a rd t h a t c o u l d l i t e r a l l y c r e a t e s o m e t h i n g
o u t o f t h i n a i r ( o r w i t h a g o o d t e x t e d i t o r ) .
S o s o f t w a r e d e v e l o p m e n t i n g e n e r a l t u r n e d i n t o s o m e t h i n g I w a n t e d t o d o f o r t h e
l o n g - t e r m , n o t j u s t t h i s s t e p p i n g s t o n e .
I ’ M A W I Z A R D !

9. This big change in mindset had small beginnings,
but it’s changed me for the better, and I find
myself delving deeper into the infinite cave that is
covered with digital hieroglyphics.
There are no regrets.
I’m not looking back.
There is no pivot.