About Me

I'm Steven—a husband, father of three young kids, follower of Jesus, and lifelong tinkerer who believes programming is just digital Legos.

By Day

I work as a React Native developer at a Fortune 500 financial company. I've been doing mobile development since 2016, and I'm actually the one who pitched React Native internally—they estimated it would save $7-10 million per year. That felt pretty good.

By Night (and Naptime)

When I'm not wrangling code at work or wrangling kids at home, I tinker. Game development, home automation, developer tools, tax software, whatever catches my curiosity. Most projects never ship, and that's fine. The learning is the point.

Some highlights from the tinkering journey:

• Built a Payday 2 skill calculator that got millions of visitors and an NDA with the game studio
• Created 3D-printed smart home sensors that were cheaper than store-bought
• Developed tax appeal software and went door-to-door helping neighbors win their appeals
• Learned Kubernetes just to host multiplayer game servers for a side project
• Started a web agency in 2025 to ride the AI wave

Faith & Family

I love Jesus. My faith shapes how I see work, creativity, and purpose. Building things—whether it's software, games, or Lego towers with my kids—feels like participating in something bigger.

Speaking of kids, I have three of them, all six and under. They're the reason I built a digital sticker app (physical charts got too chaotic) and why I once made a Pokémon-themed Vampire Survivors game in a single afternoon. Naptime is productive time.

Philosophy

I don't build things to get rich or famous. I build because it's fun, because I learn something, and because at the end—even if I never use what I made—I feel energized instead of drained. That's the difference between building and just playing video games for me.

Programming is digital Legos. You don't need a grand plan. Just start building.