tl;dr
Full Stack Developer at TouchBistro enabling devs to ship faster, safer, and easier. Former pedicab (aka bike taxi) driver who discovered programming during the pandemic and fell in love with building things. Life-long autodidact, grappling enthusiast and Steam library dust collector.
The Journey
Started as a pedicab driver in Toronto, biking people around the city and discovering stories from all walks of life. When I wanted to start my own pedicab company, I needed a website but couldn't afford to hire someone.
Black Friday 2019: bought a web development course on Udemy. Little did I know this would completely change my career trajectory.
The pandemic hit in March 2020. While the world paused, I dove deeper into programming. Completed CS50, built projects, struggled through algorithms, and fell in love with the craft of building software.
May 2021: landed my first developer role at TouchBistro. Got plopped onto the Menu Management team building a Cloud-first menu that interacts with in-venue POS systems 🥳.
Currently
On the Developer Acceleration team @TouchBistro building CI/CD pipelines, developer tools, and automation. Passionate about learning all the corners and edges of software and learning about real-world systems.
Hobby Projects 🫶🏻
SonicSight
SonicSight
A web application that transforms audio files into spectrograms and uses deep learning to classify sounds. Currently specialized in distinguishing between cat and dog sounds, it leverages a model I trained on Kaggle, deployed on Hugging Face with a FastHTML frontend.
Twitter clone API
Twitter clone API
Developed an API that mocks some of the features that Twitter provides. API Features include: authentication, direct messages, tweets, retweets, likes, and threads.
Pomodomo
Open Source Contributions
Mocha
☕️ simple, flexible, fun javascript test framework for node.js & the browser
FastHTML
A Python web framework for fast, scalable web applications with minimal, compact code.
LaunchDarkly/ld-find-code-refs
Command line program for generating flag code references
Current Interests
- Practical Deep Learning for Coders (by fast.ai) course - I'm using this to dip into ML & Deep Learning
- The Autodidacts blog - lots of my interests fall into this blog (self-learning, tech, nerd stuff)
- Permacomputing - never heard of this concept until recently (April 2025)