I want to experience as much of life as I can, from different perspectives and professional careers to the smaller details that make me, me. That could be a clinical trial dataset, music, languages, or neuroplasticity.
For most of my life, that curiosity and energy went into sports. I was always playing something, always moving, and always looking for the next challenge. Then I tore my ACL during my freshman year of college, and that part of my life changed forever. For a while, I became complacent, feeling stuck and stopped pushing myself to grow. College brought more difficult challenges that often felt like climbing a muddy hill. There were times when progress felt slow, but each challenge forced me to adapt and find a different way forward. Over time, I started putting that same energy into areas I had never explored as deeply before — the arts and sciences. Challenging myself in those areas has become a big part of how I approach learning, work, and life today.
At Avalyn Pharma, I spent almost a year in Corporate Development and three months in Finance. I moved the team's CRM off spreadsheets and into Salesforce, built KPI dashboards, and put together financial models that went straight to the CFO. The biggest lesson was a humbling one: nobody cares how clever an analysis is if they can't understand it in the two minutes they have.
After my two internships wrapped, I wanted to keep learning about this space on my own, with questions like "Does the market actually understand what's happening in IPF clinical trials?" I answered it using only public data: first a database of every IPF/PF trial I could find, then a stock-market event study built on top of it. Healthcare data also hits close to home for me. Not just personal battles, but my uncle was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, and since then I can't see health data as just rows in a table.
Right now I'm building Offloaded, a project on how much of our thinking we've started handing to AI. These tools showed up during my senior year of high school, so I watched the shift happen in my own classrooms. I'm writing the core code myself, partly because it would be a little ironic not to.
I've also taught martial arts for over a decade, which taught me that if a student doesn't get it, the problem is usually how I explained it. Outside of that, I'm an intermediate guitar player working through Shawn Mendes' album Shawn and recording my practice sessions along the way. I'm also studying Italian (thanks to my mom's side of the family), French, and Spanish.
