I'm a full-stack software engineer and have a background in psychology, studying memory. My interest in software development first came about while a graduate student at the University of Illinois, where I researched how individual differences in short-term memory might lead to better long-term learning. I was fascinated with how under time pressure or distraction, people could still (usually) develop successful strategies to learn the items and associations we bombarded them with.

I also found that I enjoyed programming experiments a bit more than wrangling the sleep-deprived undergraduates who participated in them. When Covid started, I began to learn how to build these experiments online using JavaScript, and am now branching out to study web development full-time.

I recently graduated from a 16-week, full-stack software engineering program at Rithm School. There, I had the pleasure of learning from highly-experienced instructors, built projects while programming in pairs, and became a more thoughtful and productive software engineer. I am currently looking for job opportunities, and am excited to see what lies ahead.