the blog
A simple space for sharing what I'm learning and building.
Introduction
I spent a decade in the alcohol beverage industry working across operations, new product development, supply chain, and finance. The work I liked best was always building things: a forecasting model, a production tracking system, a better way to connect what t
Learning to Code
In late 2016 I enrolled at a coding bootcamp called Bitwise in Fresno, and over the following year I worked my way from vanilla HTML, CSS, and JavaScript all the way up to Angular 1. I loved the process of building something from nothing and watching it come t
Amortization Calculator
I built an amortization calculator in React. The user enters a loan amount, interest rate, and term length, and the app shows a payment summary, an area chart of principal vs. interest over time, and a scrollable payment schedule. Everything recalculates as th
Excel Formula Formatting
Early in my career I built an Excel model I was genuinely proud of. It handled a dozen edge cases, pulled from multiple sheets, and always gave the right answer. The problem was that nobody else could touch it. When I moved to a different role, someone had to
MBA as Codebase
Throughout my MBA, I've tried every organizational method I could find. Apple Notes, Notion, various folder structures. After eight months and three quarters, I settled on something almost embarrassingly simple: a plain directory tree synced via iCloud. School
the blog
A simple space for sharing what I'm learning and building.