Sitting down for a dinner with friends on my twentieth birthday, I contemplated who I had become in my twenty years of life. What connections I’ve made, the things I’ve learned, the mistakes I’ve made – how they all brought me to where I am today.
Origin Story and Testimony
I come from a half-chinese, half-spanish family out of a medium-sized town in Southern California. Growing up, I was raised Catholic but eventually ended up drifting more towards a Protestant faith.
For the longest time, I was a lukewarm Christian, attending mass on Sunday, but never attempting to form a solid relationship with God. When I reached college, I came to the realization that I couldn’t do everything on my own.
Classes, heartbreak, and a variety of physical and emotional injuries helped me see how fragile I truly was. I committed my life to Christ, seeking to put Him above all else in my life.
Ever since, I’ve been a changed man. The glorious works that God has done in my life – the people he’s put in it, the lives he’s changed with them, and the renewal he’s afforded me prove His work to me.
Birth of a Tech Geek
Since the age of three, I’ve been drawn to technology like segfaults to newly-written C code. My earliest memory of computers was plucking out the keycaps from my mom’s old obsidian-black HP laptop.
From then on, I was drawn into the world of video gaming, computer building, and coding. I gravitated more towards video game development, given my innate interest in gaming, but learned to enjoy other types of programming, like web and software development.
Inspirations
A lot of my inspiration to make cool things comes from games and media I consume.
(From left to right: Disco Elysium, Omori, Forrest Frank, half•alive)
I draw a lot of inspiration to do what I do from the things I like most. Video games and music move me the most when it comes to inspiring and energizing.
Disco Elysium is to-date, my favorite game of all time. We follow an amnesiac detective in a broken world, who relearns how the world works, who he is, and most importantly – what he wants to be.
Omori was one of the games I “binged” during the pandemic that gave me a lot of perspective on how people deal with trauma. It gave a me a lot to think about and helped me grow in my empathy towards those impacted by trauma.
half•alive and Forrest Frank are a few Christian artists who have been influential for me. Not much more to say – I just really like their beats and lyrics!
Other Hobbies
On top of the main three (being Christ, lifting, and coding), I also like to cook, create digital art, and ocassionally write poetry.
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