I grew up as an army kid. New city every few years, new school, new language, new food, new people. On both sides of my family, everyone farmed. I'm the first one to go into design. I think all that moving around shaped something in me early: I got fascinated by how differently people live, how a place looks and feels, how culture quietly changes the way things are made. I'm still doing that. I just do it with a purpose now.

I was around 13 or 14 when I first sat in front of Photoshop. My dad's friend ran a photo studio, and one afternoon he opened a pirated copy of Photoshop 2008 and showed me a few things. I didn't want to leave. That's how it started, not a plan, just a moment where something clicked. I've always been curious that way: about most things, not just design. If something catches my attention, I want to understand how it works. What makes it that way. Why it exists at all. Design just happened to be the thing that kept giving me new questions to ask.

I'm quiet in a room. Introverted, honestly. I observe more than I talk. But my brain rarely sits still. It's always noticing, connecting, asking why. Nothing I do is random. Every decision has a reason behind it, even if I can't always name it right away. I believe most things happen twice: first in the mind, then in the world. Design, for me, is just the practice of making the second match the first.

When I'm not designing, I'm usually still noticing things I'll want to design later, but I also make myself leave the desk. City walks, hikes, random car or bike rides, travel with no fixed plan. I shoot photos wherever I go: mountains, streets, or something small on the ground. No agenda, just looking. And I build things out of curiosity too. This portfolio itself was vibe coded using no-code agentic AI, not because I had to, but because I wanted to understand how it worked. That's how I approach new tools: explore first, figure out what it means later.