Builds · Where it started
It started with a screwdriver.
From building my first PC to shipping software people use every day.
The early years · PC → video editing → hardware → code
Childhood
My first computer
I built my own PC as a kid — mostly because I wanted to know what was inside the box. Seating the CPU, routing cables, and pressing the power button for the first time taught me that machines are just parts someone decided to put together.
Early years
Video Editing
Learned how to professional video edit through After effects, Premier Pro, and even learned 3D modeling through Blender to incorporate 3D models into montages. Started a youtube channel with 200 subscribers where I posted my products.
Sixth grade
A soldered keyboard
I soldered my own mechanical keyboard, switch by switch. It was slow, a little nerve-wracking, and the first time I worked at the level of individual circuits.
After that
Learning to code
Eventually, assembling hardware wasn't enough — I wanted to make the software too. I started teaching myself to code and building small programs of my own.
The apps
Three apps. Shipped and in use.
WickCares · Community service, organized
My first real attempt to
build for a community.
In early 2023, just before 9th grade, AI coders like GPT-3.5 couldn't build a real app, so I taught myself Swift and SwiftUI and shipped "WickIntern" to the App Store. I got 15 employers to sign on to host high school interns and pitched it to my Head of School, but the proposal was rejected.
I rebuilt the same app around community service and renamed it WickCares.
- →2023 · Learned Swift/SwiftUI, shipped WickIntern
- →Cold-contacted 20+ service organizations
- →Ran Zoom trainings so organizations could recruit volunteers
- →Junior year · Launched WickCares to the Upper School
- →13 organizations connected to 100+ students
- Platform
- iOS · iPhone
- Stack
- Swift · SwiftUI
- Distribution
- App Store (public)
- Status
- Live
Participating organizations
Students connected
Opportunities posted
WickCares · Swift / SwiftUI
WickCentral
WickCentral · School life, in one place
Building for my school.
Brunswick runs on a rotating schedule. Between that, lunch menus, and everything else students need to check in a day, the information was scattered. Brunswick commissioned me to fix that — WickCentral puts it all in one place.
I built it with AI-assisted coding tools, and it's now adopted school-wide. It isn't flashy. It's a practical tool for everyday student life — the kind of app you open between classes without thinking about it. That's exactly what I wanted.
users
Daily schedule
Lunch menu
School links
My schedule
- Platform
- iOS · iPhone
- Stack
- Swift · SwiftUI
- Distribution
- App Store (public)
- Status
- Live · school-wide adoption
A typical build session — SwiftUI source and the live iPhone preview.
5 Steps to Five · Attendance & family records
Software for someone's
morning routine.
5 Steps to Five supports early childhood education for families in Port Chester and Rye. I started volunteering there in eighth grade — and the longer I stayed, the more I saw how much of the daily work happened on paper.
So I built a custom attendance and family-records app in Swift, SwiftUI and Firebase. The organization adopted it into its daily operations in 2023, and it's been running ever since.
Used internally by staff and distributed through Apple's Unlisted App Distribution — it does not appear in public App Store search.
The full 5 Steps to Five story- Platform
- iOS · iPhone
- Stack
- SwiftUI · Firebase
- Distribution
- Unlisted App Distribution
- Status
- In daily use since 2023
Sessions posted in the admin app
In daily operations since
Hours contributed
5 Steps to Five · Attendance & contacts
CRS Reprocessing Services · Jeffersonville, IN
A summer in industry.
In the summer of 2026 I worked as a paid Business Operations Intern at CRS Reprocessing Services, an industrial fluid-recycling company. I rotated through every department to understand how the plant actually runs.
I presented a department-by-department AI automation plan to leadership, helped design and build a distillation unit, and welded alongside plant operators. Software is easier to build well when you've seen the physical work it supports.
- Role
- Business Operations Intern (paid)
- When
- Summer 2026
- Focus
- Operations · AI automation plan
- Hands-on
- Distillation unit · welding
Skills
The tools behind the work.
iOS & web development
Swift / SwiftUI · Firebase · Web development · AI-assisted development
Fusion 360 · CAD
CAD design & 3D printing — the thrusters in my science research
Video editing & music production
After Effects, Premiere Pro & Blender 3D · Music production
I don't build things for the technical challenge alone. I build them because they solve a real problem for someone.
Next
MHD propulsion research
Designing and testing propellerless seawater thrusters — 33.6 dB quieter on average in tank comparisons.
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Greenwich Finance Series
Free financial literacy programming for high schoolers across 11 schools.
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