012019 / The beginning
Where it started
I studied Business and Management Information Systems at Cal State San Marcos and joined EasyPay Finance in 2019 as a marketing coordinator. The job was email campaigns for 25,000 subscribers and collateral for 5,000 merchant partners. The part I liked was the part nobody asked for: building the templates, the trackers, and the little tools that made the work go faster.
That habit became the career. I taught myself to build real systems and software by making things I needed, and I kept building on nights and weekends until one of them shipped. FORGE, a habits and fitness app, went live on the App Store before I had written a line of code professionally.
