My main career focus is to apply a technical education to creative projects and to collaborate with others in their journey to do the same. I graduated with a degree in Mechanical Engineering, because I love building all sorts of things, although for over a decade I've focused on software engineering as my career. I'm passionate about teaching technical topics and never stop learning from others, which is how I settled into Developer Relations.I founded the Developer Relations team at Asana, building the team from myself to a team of 5 during a fascinating part of Asana's history. We shaped much of Asana's developer policies and ecosystem, including community building, documentation, SDK and tools development, and partnerships while managing scaling challenges, feature additions, and exciting company growth. I joined the company at about 150 strong and had the privilege to be present through our IPO and growth to nearly a thousand Asana team members.My software specialties involve programming in Python, C++, Ruby, Java, and Typescript/Javascript, although most days I feel like there isn't a programming language I wouldn't love to learn more deeply. I almost always have several hobby projects on the side to learn new things. I have created full stack apps to help people make better decisions about, for example, "what to eat tonight", rolled my own shortlinks / bookmarks on Github Pages with Stable Diffusion-generated QR codes for quick and attractive links to share for mobile devices, spent many hours gathering insights and testing hypotheses about developer experience though SQL queries against big databases which track user activity, and built basic 3D graphics and visualization software in OpenGL for aerospace simulations. I have a hobby to take 3D images and [stitch them together](https://github.com/praecipula/stereo_correlation) using my own software.