My Story

I'm years old, but I've been coding for more than half my life! Though I first started coding in 2013, it wasn't really anything big, just "Hello World" programs and basic math. I was coding on a school-issued chromebook, so just basic JavaScript and several Scratch projects.

When I got my first PC in 2014, I was introduced to World of Warcraft. Back in the day, you could use addons get an overview of player combat and give real-time advice to yourself with code. I enjoyed this aspect of the game and coded my own personal HUD that managed every player and used a combination of AI and hardcoded algorithms to suggest me which players to cast which spells on, but sadly, Blizzard killed addon-assisted combat in 2026, and my addon no longer works.

By the time I got to college, I was producing about what you'd see entry-level software engineers create. I landed my first job as a student tutor at Hawaii Pacific University because of my expertise, and later during the year, I applied to a remote work position at Scale AI and got accepted.

In 2024, I decided to study abroad in Japan. My most favorite thing there was the food, but I also went to a few amusement parks (including Universal Studios) and visited both the city and countryside.

I graduated university in December of 2025 (2 years early!) because I transfered in many AP/DC credits to my university and now have a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science. I'm happy to have my degree, but I found out that you learn a lot more on your own than in school, especially if you tinker on your own or even start your own business (see next paragraph).

As of now, 2026, I quit developing code for Scale AI because the work environment has significantly degraded, and I am working on GPU Sniper, a GPU price tracking website. This project runs on express.js, postgresql, redis, and uses Cloudflare for proxying. Instead of using React or Next.js, I developed my own coding solution for modular HTML files and component imports and use this to "build" my websites.

I do not use AI to generate code for my websites. Occasionally, skeletons for the website may be produced by AI, but I usually replace more than 80% of it with my own UI due to bugs or lack of instruction following. I usually only ask one prompt but write several paragraphs; I know the AI won't get everything down-to-detail, but I'd rather have a skeleton as a starting point than a blank editor. This actually works out well for me since I'm familiar with fixing bugs in AI-generated code due to my previous job. All server backend code since I migrated servers in January 2026 has been 100% human-written starting from a blank editor.