Professional Focus

I like working on problems that look simple until you try them. Sometimes that means teaching an AI to read research papers and turn them into usable lab protocols. Sometimes it’s scraping ten years of stock prices to find patterns and test what might happen next. Lately, I’ve been building real-time AI guidance for high-stakes conversations, like asking for a raise or buying a car, to make those moments less stressful and more informed.

Hobbies

Football and Barcelona

I do not play football that much, but I almost never miss a Barca game. What keeps me locked in is the detail that casual viewers miss, the pivot receiving on the half turn, the winger holding width to pin the fullback, and the third man combinations that suddenly open the box after long spells of possession.

Supporting Barcelona also means living through both extremes. I still remember the 6-1 remontada against PSG, the 8-2 collapse in Lisbon, and the 2021 Messi exit announcement. Through all of it, I keep coming back to the same identity, La Masia principles, Pep Guardiola’s tiki-taka and positional play, and the belief that courage on the ball matters more than panic.

Strategic Lessons from Westeros

I keep coming back for the details most people skip. Tyrion setting the Blackwater trap with wildfire and the river chain, Cersei burning her own political capital in King’s Landing, and Daenerys learning in Meereen that ruling is harder than conquering. The Sons of the Harpy killings, the ninety-day pact with Hizdahr, and the reopening of Daznak’s Pit are the kind of messy trade-offs that make the world feel real.

Book-versus-show canon debates are my favorite, especially the Night King split. In the show he is a present-day White Walker leader, while in the books the Night’s King is a legend from long before. What hooks me is not just who wins a battle, but how one bad decision in council can echo across an entire kingdom.