Born and raised in NYC, Queens. Been living the entirely of adulthood in Vegas.
I love illustrating, both traditionally and digitally. The latter is just the most convenient, so it's what I showcase.
It's hard to say if I love it more than coding. I enjoy both very much.

I was an artist first, but I discovered an interest in more techical things when a friend in 8th grade gave me a copy of RPG Maker 2000.
Ironically, my first coding language was Ruby (as used in RPGM2K), but I didn't really get into coding until Flash completely died, back in June 2019.
Our boss-lady at the time told my whole team to stop development of ALL flash games. All we made at the time were Flash games, and so there was nothing left to do.
At the time, I was an animator, but also handling the whole process of putting together our games, compiling and testing from templates.
With nothing to do at the office, and a very strong thirst to learn, I taught myself JavaScript, which was our future.
A few weeks later, and I was prototyping alongside our game developer, re-creating templates and games.
Now I'm in the deep-end, not only handling tech art tasks, such as putting assets into the game engine, but also creating custom scripts, and designing shaders using GLSL.

It's a huge passion, and also one of my personal hobbies. Creating this portfolio website from scratch, animating and coding things like the Worm tank above for fun.
I've also dabbled in back-end as well. I run my own personal AWS EC2 instance, where I develop discord bots for fun, and run MySQL databases to work alongside them.
Each project brings with it new knowledge that I'm able to apply elsewhere (including work). Troubleshooting server issues, learning about networks in general, async, etc.
Binary stuff, bitwise, masking with em. It's been a fun and hair-pulling journey, but I love this stuff.

Health matters too. I love the outdoors, hiking, traveling, family. Food is great. I love food...and keeping healthy enough so I can live longer and eat more food.
Games matter too. Shadow of the Colossus, Legend of Dragoon, and Destiny 2 are very big favs. I re-visit old games, like Star Craft (original + broodwars) for fun.
If I had more time, I'd do tabletop again. I'm a I-forget-what-level Halfling Warlock, and my aim is terrible. Catan is fun too.