I've been playing and writing music for as long as I can remember. I learned piano in a very musical household and, for a brief time later on, with the guidance of Simon Docking. Although I'm largely self-taught, I've received invaluable advice over the years from established composers.

My music has won several provincial and national awards. Among these, I'm a four-time winner of the CFMTA National Student Composer Competition, and a recipient of the CFMTA Helen Dahlstrom Award for best composition in any category.

Along with classical music, I've recently been experimenting with electronic music and jazz improv. For three years, I busked regularly in various places, most recently the Seaport Farmers' Market, where I occasionally also accompanied my sister Maddie, a very talented singer.

At a computer science summer camp in 2007, I learned to use GameMaker to create simple video games. I continued to pursue this as a hobby, and thereby teach myself game design and programming for the next few years. I created three large-scale games in GameMaker 8, with homemade graphics and original soundtracks made with GarageBand.

In high school, I branched out from game design towards programming and computer science more generally in high school, beginning when I took my first programming class in 12th grade. I chose computer science as my major in university, and through the co-op program I worked as a mobile developer at Sidestory, and a web developer at SimplyCast.