Hi, welcome to my website.
i grew up on the internet, so i might as well have my own corner here, not just a LinkedIn page lol.
i'm also a lazy person (this can be good or bad). i love shortcuts. If there's an easier way to do something, my brain automatically starts looking for it.
i found a loophole in my school's reading-comprehension software and used it to hit the top score for speed + accuracy. i barely read anything besides Geronimo Stilton, still won multiple $50 gift cards to my local mall, and got permanently hooked on finding unconventional ways to win.
i found the Nintendo DS Pokémon DNS exploit super early and used it to get powerful Pokémon until i beat all the games. This was basically my origin story: i didn't just like playing, i liked understanding how the rules were held together.
i hacked Terraria on my iPad to get the most powerful tools and weapons… then traded them to my grade 6 peers for donuts.
Yes, i was running an in-game black market. Yes, i was also a fat kid. Important lore.
i launched a YouTube channel making R-rated Caillou videos (many were stitched together… i was 12, don't cook me). i was also early to clipping the viral "Man's Not Hot" era ("ya dunno").
i hit 1M+ views and made an astonishing $800 USD, which got revoked because… copyright. Didn't matter much, i didn't even have a bank account and my dad would've stained me anyway.
i discovered dropshipping and genuinely believed it was an infinite money glitch. (It wasn't, and i was late.)
Still, i ran two e-commerce stores that surpassed $35K in revenue. Don't ask about margins.
FYI: two-factor authentication is not optional.
During that phase i became friends with a Taiwanese engineer in the US (the internet is weird like that). Together we built a marketing agency with overseas freelancers. We made about $30K, then shut it down because school + operations + shrinking margins was too much.
i made money young, lost money young, and learned risk the hard way. i made a significant amount of money in a span of a day, which permanently skewed my perception of money. (if you're from the CRA please leave this site) Had i not gotten out of it, i would probably be flipping burgers at McDonalds.
i've never done a "traditional CS path," and i'm not a master in any one language. i learned by obsessing, tinkering, and building things until they worked.
i discovered EEG devices, experimented with them, extracted raw signal data, and built a driver awareness / drowsy driving concept. i won 2nd place in my local science fair. That's when tech stopped being "interesting" and became "i want to do this forever."
i stumbled into CNNs and single-shot detection models, and built a prototype wearable device that could translate sign language to audio in real time.
i trained it by borrowing my school's gaming laptops and absolutely abusing the GPUs (shoutout Mr. Said). My data was synthetic aka my hand in different positions distorted under various colours and environments done thousands of times over.
i had a research position at the University of Alberta (Computing Science), working under world-renowned machine learning professors, exploring implicit bias in individuals with autism. i built the software to run the study and collect participant data that could be used to analyze behavior (response times + choices).
i just finished my Business & Economics degree at the University of Toronto, and i'm deep into real estate + AI. i'm figuring out how to make housing work better by replacing slow, outdated processes with LLMs, reinforcement learning, and computer vision.
Gym: hit my first muscle-up and benched 275 at 19. Currently chasing 315. Can't muscle-up right now, Uber Eats did me dirty.
Animals: i love animals and my life will be complete when i have my own farm.
Aquariums: i have a deep interest in aquariums and fish keeping. i find the intricacies in keeping fish, raising fish in tanks really astonishing, especially for fish like koi and discus, and i have profound respect for aquarium hobbyists.
Music: my taste is everywhere: house (2016 was peak), afrobeats, rap, and lo-fi beats (yes, i'm a typical Gen Z stereotype).
Economics: i find great interest in economic models and how they were discovered. Although i believe there are a lot of flaws in economics, understanding it should be mandatory in all schools, especially subjects related to economic development and poverty.
One of my biggest regrets was never documenting my projects or discoveries publicly or on platforms like github (just had a boring linkedin account).
i'm forever indebted to the builders who made the internet what it is, and i want to finally contribute something meaningful back.
So going forward all my projects will be uploaded to github and everything i learned thoughts and discoveries will be uploaded here somewhere.