me
Growing up in one of the most technologically volatile times, dictated by datafication of life and the rise of platform capitalism on the internet, I believe it is important to be curious and keep learning across disciplines. I value attention to detail, determination, and keeping a critical lens on the tools, technologies, and the power structures they reproduce. With that out of the way I am a physics student interested in many fields and this is my space to share my projects and ideas. Any project is possible with the right team, perspective, and interdisciplinary approach.
I enjoy exploring a wide range of topics from critical history of technology and graphic design to photojournalism and experimental research. I just finished my Bachelors in Physics with a certificate in Digital Journalism at Simon Fraser University, and am now getting my hands dirty in quantum communications and optical control systems, with a side-focus on data communication and science journalism relating to the growing craze around quantum physics.
In my personal life, I enjoy landscape and nature photography, but am pushing my comfort with portrait work; as well as hiking in B.C.'s natural forests. During the winter, I try to find time to relax and ski our local mountains or read up on my current hyperfocus. I also like experimenting with programming—typically Python and C++, but recently some Ruby and JS—to develop my own projects and expand my coding vocabulary, or messing with physics experiments in my own time.
This website serves as a personal portfolio for my work in physics, prototyping, and digital journalism. Above all else it tries to do, it is here to host galleries of photos from events I have worked at or personal photoshoots, as well as catalogue projects I have worked towards. It is designed to be creative and professional facing. That beings said, I also host a blog with more causal content, devlogs, and thoughts which tangentially connect to the IndieWeb movement and the idea of maintaining agency on my own slice of the world wide web. This is a static site (no server, database, or backend) in an attempt to keep it simple and fast while forcing me to learn a new skill: HTML, CSS, and JS. The site is constructed using Middleman as my static site builder, and pages are written using html and js with Embedded Ruby (ERB). To style pages I stick with some pure CSS and use tailwindcss to simplify the process. I use Netlify to host and distribute content at my domain.