Building sharp developer tools, accessible community sites, and tactile web systems.

Digital Design Club & Community Web Studio

At Dulles High School, I founded the Digital Design Club to give students a workshop for real interface critique, Swiss grid layout, and HTML/CSS craftsmanship rather than slide-deck theory. We dissect spacing tokens, contrast ratios, and component states line by line.

Outside school hours, I run a pro-bono web studio that designs and ships fast, accessible websites for local community nonprofits and student initiatives such as MSA. Most small organizations are stuck with slow page builders or broken mobile layouts; replacing those with semantic, zero-cost static sites gives them permanent ownership.

Speech & Debate

Competing in speech and debate trained me to compress complex technical ideas into clear, defensible arguments under strict time limits. When you have four minutes to establish a framework, weigh competing impacts, and answer cross-examination, every redundant sentence costs clarity.

I bring that same structural discipline to writing documentation, designing onboarding flows, and scoping software: state the premise clearly, surface the evidence early, and never hide a weak assumption behind decorative jargon.

Classical Tabla Practice

I study and practice North Indian classical tabla, working through traditional compositions (kaidas, relas, and tihais) across cyclic talas like Tintal (16 beats), Jhaptal (10 beats), and Rupak (7 beats). Tabla demands mathematical precision: every phrase must subdivide the beat cleanly and resolve squarely on the sam (beat one).