Origin

That's Tuna, my dog. I got her while living in Ensenada — I asked my landlord if I could keep a dog, he said yes, and that photo is from one of the flights we took together after. She didn't know how long we'd be together on that trip. She was just curious, watching the coastline go by, and happy regardless. The mark next to my name — a dog looking through a plane window, with a circuit board where the sky should be — is literally her.

The connection to my work isn't the curiosity part, though that applies too. It's the other photo I almost used instead — Tuna mid-yawn on a beach, scars and patchy fur in plain view, completely unposed. I picked the plane window one for the logo, but the beach one is closer to how I want this site to read: the real process, not the polished version of it. A career that went biomedical engineering → computer vision → explainable AI → full-stack architecture isn't a straight line, and I'd rather show it as it happened than smooth it into a clean narrative after the fact.