Professional Focus

Lately I’ve been building Tensa, a calisthenics coach for anyone who trains alone. It watches your set through the webcam and tells you your form is bad in the middle of the rep, then calls you out so you can fix it on the next one. Around the same time I started building Quantile after seeing researchers spend hours turning their data into figures a journal would accept. So I cold-emailed a few of them and showed them my prototype, and the first people to pay for it were at Mayo Clinic. Most recently I built UMiami, the Coral Gables campus rebuilt in 3D, for the Base44 and uStart hackathon.

Hobbies

Football and Barcelona

I never played football seriously, but I watch it constantly, and I rarely miss a Barca game. What keeps me watching is the small stuff that decides a match, like a winger holding width to pin a fullback, or a pivot taking the ball already half-turned. And being a fan means taking the lows with the highs, from the 6-1 comeback against PSG in 2017, to the 8-2 to Bayern in 2020, to Messi leaving in 2021. Through all of it the idea holds, with homegrown players keeping the ball and building out of pressure, even as the managers change.

Game of Thrones

The other thing I keep coming back to is Game of Thrones, mostly because the biggest moments trace back to one quiet decision made much earlier. Littlefinger poisoning Jon Arryn and pinning it on the Lannisters is what technically starts the war, and nobody ever brings up that scene. Then there’s the Night King, who I keep thinking about. On the show he leads the White Walkers, but in the books the Night’s King is a figure from Old Nan’s stories, and he served the Others rather than leading them.

Calisthenics

Then there’s calisthenics, which I started in December at home with parallettes and a few resistance bands. At first I couldn’t get past three real push-ups, but I’ve logged every session on Hevy since then, filled the gaps with YouTube, and kept at it. Three months in, I can do pseudo planche, archer and pike push-ups, plus a one-leg assisted L-sit. The archer push-up is the one I’m proudest of, because one arm carries almost all the weight and there’s no faking it, and a full planche is next.