I notice when something is harder than it should be—for developers, for users—and I can’t leave it alone until it’s fixed and explained.

That reflex started in college: right-click, view source, break until it worked. One week later I had a site and an internship. Pattern locked.

Same loop, bigger stakes: 

• Avis Budget Group → 36 hours of Mulesoft → reusable models that kept a $1.25 B launch alive. Still in use. 
• Sabre → first contact with REST → wrote the full blueprints so code could actually be written. 
• Stripe → no Python → full eCommerce app + webhook docs rewritten from real pain. 
• AWS → no Kubernetes → live bookstore on EKS with stateful Postgres + official developers workshop.

I chase technical novelty the way other people chase levels in a game. I was thinking about self-trained, sentient robots before it was a thing. Now, the future is here. Descartes said, “I think, therefore I am.” AI will say, “I think, therefore I teach.” Everything I build is practice for the day this is no longer fiction.

If this sounds like you, say hi.