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. I've also worked as an IATSE set medic on Hollywood films and sets.
Before nursing I lived other lives: executive team at a multimillion-dollar real-estate investment company, founder of my own companies, sponsored competitive surfer. 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, and served a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on the Navajo Nation in New Mexico — serving the people there and teaching about 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 8 years of Muay Thai with Team Oyama 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. Also an NPC Men's Physique finalist and 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 OrchestrationNCLEX Study App
Exam prep from someone actually walking the LVN→RN path.
Nursing EdAPEX Coach
Momentum, habits and accountability that compound.
CoachingOptions Lab
Trading analytics that turn market noise into decisions.
FinanceThe blog
Field notes from the nurse-who-codes lane. Never any patient information.
Why 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 soonOnce a sponsored competitive surfer (ESA East Coast All-Stars '97–'98, winters at Pipeline) — still chasing swell whenever the schedule allows.
Let's build something
Health-tech ideas, workflows worth fixing, or nursing-school-and-code talk — inbox is open.