outside of CS, i like to paint, make music, hang out with friends, play games, and hike.

inside of CS, i do competitive programming, hackathons, research, etc.

I grew up hyperfixated on strategy games (Chess, League(?), Civ6, EU4), and as a result,

I can draw a world map from memory, and oddly won my first math competition in 3rd grade

because I'd been playing enough Starcraft to memorize all multiples of 8 up to 216

Normally I would justify how this is relevant to my portfolio, but

I've left that as an exercise for the reader