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Noticing when a person is doing a machine’s job.
The short version: community college, then the University of Illinois, then client work in Austin. The longer version is that most of what I have built started as somebody, often me, doing the same thing by hand for the third time.
The route here
I started at Wilbur Wright College and transferred to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign for a computer science degree, finishing in 2025. Along the way I worked on research into mentor–mentee matching, presented it twice, and it was later written up for the American Society for Engineering Education.
Running something of my own
Before the engineering jobs there was a reselling operation, and then a small 3D printing business: intake, production, fulfilment, and the software to keep all three straight. It is where AMS-X comes from. Four spools is a hardware answer to a software problem, and standing at a printer to swap filament is exactly the kind of manual step worth deleting.
What I do now
Forward Deployed Engineer at FYCLabs: I sit with the client, find the step a person is doing by hand, and build whatever it takes to remove it. Sometimes that is product work, sometimes it is the systems underneath. The experience page has the roles in detail, and the projects are the work I set myself.
Outside the work
Not written up yet.