I grew up in Centralia, Illinois, a small former railroad town in corn country. I graduated from Stanford in 2002 with a degree in Architecture and Urban Design.
I lived in Malaysia from 2002 to 2003, courtesy of a Fulbright Scholarship. It was a memorable year during which I met a lot of inspiring people and made a short film. The highlight of the film remains my somewhat sadistic staging of a durian eating contest.
I lived in New York City from 2003 to 2010, and have the Strand tote bag to prove it.
Beginning in 2012, I taught myself to code. I designed and developed library and book metadata and other web systems at the non-profit Worldreader from 2014 to 2017. I now work as a Web Engineer for the company that developed your company’s customer service software (probably).
I live in San Francisco.