I'm a 1st Responder and EMT pivoting into software engineering — an AI/ML engineer and full-stack developer based in Chicago. I'm finishing my AI/ML certification from Google in late May 2026. The common thread in everything I do: solving real problems, fast. Whether that's stabilizing someone in the back of an ambulance or shipping an automated workflow that gives a team their evenings back, I gravitate toward work where the stakes are concrete and the feedback is immediate. Current obsession: dragging emergency-services software out of 2014. The tools 1st Responders actually use look and feel a decade behind what every other industry takes for granted — and that's a gap I want to close.