I did not want this site to feel like a polished PDF wearing better clothes.
Career pages are useful. They help people move quickly through facts: where you worked, what you built, which tools you used, what degree you finished. I respect that. But facts alone are rarely enough to explain a person.
What I really wanted was a room for thought.
A place where work could live beside questions. Where a project summary could sit next to a reflection about learning something difficult. Where the quiet reasons behind the work could exist without needing to justify themselves as productivity.
Software has a habit of flattening people into roles and outputs. The deeper I get into engineering, the more I want to resist that flattening. Not by rejecting craft, but by widening the frame around it.
So this site is built to be lived in.
It can hold selected work, yes, but also essays, fragments, curiosities, and the softer signals that usually get edited out. That feels more honest. And honesty is a better foundation for a personal website than polish alone.