Software engineer · Charlotte ↔ Miami
I'm a software engineer, but mostly I just like making things. Right now, I'm building MiNT Assist. Before that: an AI front desk, apps on the App Store, and a PC company I started at fifteen.
A few things on the workbench.
The work
One app for coaches and sports families
The coach posts the schedule once. Each family's app fills in the day, the drive, the weather, and the updates. Less chasing down information before practice. I'm building the iOS app and the software behind it, with separate experiences for coaches and families.
AI front desk · exterior cleaning crews
It answers the phone, books the job, texts the customer, and keeps quotes, invoices and scheduling in one place. Simple problem: a crew on a roof can't pick up, and a $1,200 job goes to voicemail. I built it as one system. Took longer.
AI nutrition tracker · iOS
Works out your macro targets from your goals and biometrics, then uses an LLM to estimate what you actually ate. I built it because I was tired of guessing and the other apps wanted a subscription for it.
Custom PC builds · started at fifteen
I did the buying, the building, the branding, the marketing and the support, and wrote software to tune each machine before it shipped. First time I had real customers, which turned out to be a very different thing from having a good idea.
From the workbench
The website, quote flow, and tools behind a local business.
About
Most of what I build isn't much to look at. It picks up a phone that would have rung out, or writes a job into a calendar somebody used to type by hand. That's the part people actually feel.
I learned that the hard way running my own stuff. I'd finish something I was proud of and nothing would change. If nobody's week depends on it, it's a hobby. I still like the hobby. I just stopped mixing the two up.
I wrote my first Python at twelve. The class was taught by a guy off of MIT Sloan, and every assignment was a real business problem with real numbers. I didn't get why that mattered at the time. I do now.
First company was custom gaming PCs. I did the hardware, then wrote software to strip Windows down, then built the storefront because there was nobody else. A lot of it was breaking something and finding out why.
Right now I'm building MiNT Assist while taking classes at Central Piedmont Community College. Coaches publish once; families get the schedule, updates, and photos in one place. Same instinct, a different problem.
What I like
Making things. If I can't find it, I build it. Sometimes that's a company, sometimes it's a command line tool.
Now
Building MiNT Assist. Attending Central Piedmont Community College.
Base
Charlotte, and some of the year in Miami.
Off the keyboard
Eagle Scout and two-term Senior Patrol Leader. The second term went considerably better than the first. Conversational in Mandarin.
Experience
Founder jobs, and the ones that paid for them.
Now
Building MiNT Assist
MiNT · Charlotte, NC
An iOS app for coaches and sports families. Working across SwiftUI and the backend so a coach's schedule and updates reach every family's app.
Feb 2025 —
Founder & CEO
Stranex Solutions · Charlotte, NC
Software for service businesses. Phone, schedule, record of the job. Stranex OS is that. The dashboard and the thing that answers when the crew can't. Most of it isn't pretty. Most of it is what the business actually runs on.
2020 —
Founder
Custom Gaming Rigs, LLC · Charlotte, NC
Custom PC business I started at fifteen. Procurement, assembly, branding, marketing and support, plus the OS-tuning software and a storefront I coded myself because I couldn't pay anyone to.
// Operational & leadership track
The jobs that paid for the rest of it. Also where I learned to talk to people who are already annoyed.
Feb 2025 —
Server
O-Ku Sushi · Indigo Road Hospitality · Charlotte, NC
Oct 2025 – Apr 2026
Lift Operator & Parking Coordinator
Appalachian Ski Mountain · Boone, NC
Jan 2022 – Aug 2025
Team Leader & Cashier
Autobell Car Wash · Charlotte, NC
Background
Current
Charlotte, NC · Taking classes while building MiNT Assist.
Previously
Economics coursework · Dean's List · Economics Club, Club Tennis, Investment Club
'21 — '25
International Baccalaureate · Mock Trial, Model UN, Chinese Club
2020
Accelerated computer-science program · Python, SQL & data modeling for business · Dr. Apollo Tankeh
Languages
Native · Professional working proficiency
On the two terms as Senior Patrol Leader: the second went considerably better than the first.