I take things apartto see how they work.Then I build themso they hold up.

As a kid, nothing in our house was safe. I opened my red remote-control car to see how it worked, then my cycle, then the fridge, then most things in the apartment. I built my own air conditioner out of a box, a DC motor and a pile of ice. I was obsessed with airplanes and big machines. And at least once, I shorted the circuit for our whole apartment.

Then my dad asked me something I still think about: “Why do you always stop?” I could take anything apart. I'd never made one work again. So I went to YouTube and Google and learned how to put things back together, and how to make them work.

Today the things I open are databases, CI systems and AI models. I built a database engine to see how storage really works, a CI platform to see what happens after git push, and an AI analyst that refuses to guess when the evidence isn't there.

Building those taught me the biggest lesson so far: something that works once is very different from something you can trust repeatedly. Now, whenever I build anything, I start by asking how it fails, not just how it works.