Hello World! I’m currently a software engineer at NAVSYS Corporation in Colorado Springs. We are a small but well-established defense company focused on creating a robust backup navigation system in the event that GPS is unavailable. This happens often as GPS is easy to jam which is a problem in conflict areas.

I graduated from USC in May 2024 with bachelor’s degrees in Mathematics and Computer Science, and I am open to new opportunities in the actuarial / data space. Predictive modeling is very interesting to me, and I am keen on identifying patterns from data in life in general. I am a data-oriented person.

Recent endeavors

The past 8 months or so have mostly been an all-out grind studying for and taking the three most recent actuarial exams listed above, and if I get an actuary job soon, I’d be excited to study for Exam 6 in the October sitting. It was an overall great experience where I proved to myself and hopefully to you that I have the discipline and focus to achieve ambitious goals. That’s not to say the experience wasn’t also stressful and consuming, and I could’ve gone about it in healthier ways. I learned a lot through this experience other than the technical -- learned about how my body requires sleep and nourishment and how to allocate my energy (nobody has an unlimited amount!), and how my mind requires both technical thinking and philosophical reflection.

Segueing, I am interested in philosophy (lit. “love of wisdom”). I know it gets a lot of haters… but I am proud of finishing Atlas Shrugged by Rand in late 2025. It pushes the limits of rational thinking. My main takeaway is that rational thinking is always good, even as it applies to things we don’t consider “rational” in the colloquial sense, like emotions and relationships. Before that, I read Thus Spake Zarathustra by Nietzsche, a great read that lays a foundation for morality and purpose from a strictly secular perspective. The next books I'd like to read are the Bible and Being and Nothingness by Sartre.