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Curiosity has always been my compass.

Since I was young, I've been fascinated by how things work. That usually meant taking electronics apart (most of the time, successfully putting them back together), solving puzzles, or building something just to see if I could.

That curiosity eventually became a career. Over the last decade I've worked across developer relations, open source, engineering, product marketing, technical enablement, and go-to-market strategy. They might seem like very different roles, but to me they've always had something in common: learning complex things, making them easier to understand, and helping other people succeed with them.

I'm often at my best in the messy middle. When the strategy makes sense on paper, but something isn't quite connecting in practice. I like figuring out what's preventing movement, bringing the right people and ideas together, and building the programs or systems that help teams get unstuck.

My career hasn't followed a straight line, and I hope it never does. The best opportunities I've had came from staying curious, saying yes to challenges that felt a little uncomfortable, and learning from people who were generous enough to share what they knew.

Still taking things apart. Just fewer electronics these days.

See where that curiosity has led