From the bedside
to the build.
Fourteen years of nursing — hospice, home health, memory care, school nursing, Hollywood sets — and now a back-end-trained builder shipping AI-powered software. I find the bottleneck. Then I fix it.
That hospital floor is where this whole life started. I've been a nurse since February 22, 2012 — hospice for five-plus years, tele/med-surg, sub-acute, SNF, assisted living, an Alzheimer's memory-care unit, private trach care, school nursing from elementary through high school, and today, Kaiser Permanente Home Health, where I was honored as LVN of the Year 2024 across Southern California, Northern California and Hawaii. From 2016 to 2022 I also worked as an IATSE set medic on Hollywood films and productions — Christopher Nolan's Tenet, The Tragedy of Macbeth with Denzel Washington, Zack Snyder's Rebel Moon, The Prom with Meryl Streep, Kidding with Jim Carrey, and America's Got Talent — with credits on IMDb.
Before nursing I lived other lives: executive team at a multimillion-dollar real-estate investment company, founder of my own companies. Every one of them taught me to see systems — where work jams up, where hours get eaten that belong to people.
So I went to back-end programming school and started fixing what I kept noticing. Now I build daily with AI: an autonomous agent command center, NCLEX study tools, coaching apps, trading dashboards, automations. Software is where a vision becomes something real you can hand to another person — and the room to create never runs out.
I'm an avid follower of Jesus Christ. Faith, gratitude, and service are the through-line in all of it. Next year: the RN license joins the toolbox (ICHS nursing program).
How a surfer became a nurse became a builder
ESA East Coast All-Star surf team
Competitive surfer from 14 to 19 — sponsored by Oakley, Reef, Katin, and Wave Riding Vehicles. Winters in Hawaii; surfed Pipeline.
Business years
Executive team, multimillion-dollar real-estate investment company; founded and ran my own companies. Trained six years of Muay Thai under Colin Oyama at Team Oyama in Irvine — and with ‘Razor’ Rob McCullough — along the way.
Licensed nurse — Feb 22, 2012
Hospice, tele/med-surg, sub-acute, SNF, assisted living, memory care, private trach nursing, school nursing (elementary → high school), IATSE set medic.
LVN of the Year — Kaiser Home Health
Across Southern California, Northern California and Hawaii. Former NASM-certified personal trainer.
Builder — and RN next year
Back-end bootcamp graduate shipping AI-assisted software daily, while finishing the ICHS RN program.
The builds
Ranked by what has my attention right now. Case studies coming as each one matures.
Mission Control
A command center running a fleet of AI coding agents — live terminals, statuses, automatic backups, autonomous build loops.
AI OrchestrationTask Assistant
An ADHD-friendly reminder app — always-on-top alerts and loud phone alarms that make sure the important things don’t slip.
Live demo → 03Jiu-Jitsu Map
All of BJJ on one interactive map — 150+ techniques with step-by-step instructions, photos, and offline downloads for the mats.
Live demo → 04NCLEX Study App
Exam prep from someone actually walking the LVN→RN path.
Live demo →APEX Coach
An injury-aware AI trainer and mental-health coach in one — it reads your sleep, soreness, energy and stress each day, then builds a safety-checked workout from a 472-exercise library that trains around your injuries. CBT, DBT and ACT coaching built in.
Live demo — soonOptions Lab
Option-income strategy optimization put to an honest test — a Python engine that walk-forward backtests 134 strategy configurations across SPY and QQQ over 14 years and four bear markets, with real costs and institutional bias-correction. The verdict: zero validated edges — most option “income” is equity risk in disguise.
Read the paper → 07Steady Mind
A free mental-wellness tool for hard moments. It walks you through a simple self-coaching method one line at a time — what happened, what you thought, how it felt, what you did, and a new thought you can actually believe — typed, or talked through by a calm voice that counts your breaths and waits while you feel. Eight guided paths: stress right now, a thought on a loop, someone else, an urge, a feeling you keep avoiding, a goal, a decision, and the method itself. Optional AI help finding the words, an “I need help now” button on every screen, and nothing you write leaves your device unless you ask the AI.
Try it free →The blog
Field notes from the nurse-who-codes lane. Never any patient information.
My dev team fits in my pocket
How a home-health nurse ships real software from a phone — an AI command center, a cloud dev environment, and a deploy pipeline with zero clicks.
Read → JulWhy a home-health nurse builds software
Fourteen years at the bedside taught me to see bottlenecks. Back-end school taught me to fix them. This is why I do both.
Read →The floor that made me a nurse: surviving a tumor at 17
Coming soonFrom Pipeline to patient care: what surfing taught me about pressure
Coming soonStill chasing swell whenever the schedule allows.
Strength training’s been a throughline since my father, a bodybuilder, drilled its value into me — I chased it onto the NPC Men’s Physique finalist stage in 2016.
Let's build something
Health-tech ideas, workflows worth fixing, or nursing-school-and-code talk — inbox is open.