PearcePackman

Honestly I just wanted to know how cars actually worked so I could fix my own someday. Skipped college right out of high school and became a mechanic for about a year instead. Nothing glamorous, mostly oil changes and brake jobs, but I learned a ton just from being under the hood every day.

After that I got into solar. College still didn't feel right for me and this seemed like a good way to actually learn something with my hands. Ran wire, installed panels, spent a lot of time on roofs and job sites, even traveled for some of it. Solid experience, I just figured out pretty quick it wasn't going to be my long term thing.

Genuinely one of my favorite things to do, and a good excuse to get outside and off a screen for a few hours.

I've been going to the gym for about 6 years now, it's just part of the routine at this point. Outside of that I like building PCs, gaming, playing guitar, and messing around with my cars whenever I get the free time.

Sole developer building production software at Occams Group, spanning architecture, cloud infrastructure, and AI feature development. I designed and shipped a full-stack platform now used daily across the company, backed by 680+ automated tests and a real CI/CD pipeline with an enforced code quality gate. I built 10+ AI-driven features through a governed API layer with cost tracking and security safeguards in place, and I provisioned and manage the Azure infrastructure it all runs on. My testing and CI/CD approach got picked up by the CTO as a model for how the rest of the team works. I also built a separate contact enrichment platform and worked on the company website. I've operated with full architectural autonomy from day one and present progress directly to C-suite leadership.

I'm also part of DAMS Lab at UMBC, working on two projects there. One's an indoor navigation app using BLE beacons, the other's an IoT curriculum we're putting together for a course launching in 2027. School's down in the Education section if you want the full rundown.