Software developer, researcher, and founder based in Abbotsford, BC. I'm building Zippex, a community-first delivery marketplace for Canada, born out of the day in 2022 I got scammed buying a bed on Facebook Marketplace and realized the gap was trust, not tech.
Before Zippex, I spent a year at UFV researching speech emotion recognition for social companion robots: teaching machines to read how humans actually feel. The work was published at IEEE CAI 2023, and the question behind it (can software feel human?) quietly runs through everything I build.
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