👋 Hello there!

I'm Michael, a full-stack software engineer at Ease Capital, developing tech-enabled solutions that simplify commercial real estate lending and asset management for multifamily properties nationwide.

What I'm currently reading (updated: 1/4/2025)

• Database Design for Mere Mortals: A Hands-On Guide to Relational Database Design by Michael J. Hernandez
• How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie
• The Whole Brain Child by Daniel J. Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson

Past Reads

• The Gifts of Imperfection by Brené Brown
• The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee
• Recursion by Blake Crouch
• We Were Dreamers: An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story by Simu Liu
• Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss and Tahl Raz
• The Simple Path to Wealth by J.L. Collins

Past Side Projects

• 🍴 yumshin: personalized restaurant reviews tracking app using t3 stack
• ✂️ lil-shorty: first time using the Glitch platform, wanted to use newish tech and build a JS "full-stack" app
• ⏱️ jotjik: habit tracking app that persists sessions to a Postgres DB, integrates Google OAuth
• 🍽️ recipeek: recipe search app, "dark mode" toggle feature