Looking back, I think I got into design because I liked the obvious part of it — how interfaces look, how interactions feel, and how a product comes together on the screen.

Then I got tired of stopping there.

I wanted to understand why a product should work the way it does, how it should evolve, and whether it actually solves something beyond looking good. That pulled me deeper into UX, product thinking, and eventually development.

Before moving deeper into engineering, I also co-owned two startups. Neither made it, but both taught me a lot about what happens when an idea has to survive outside the Figma file.

In 2025, I decided to take that curiosity further and started learning full-stack engineering. Partly because the industry is changing, partly because I wanted to understand what happens after the Figma handoff — and partly because I became genuinely fascinated by what happens behind the interface.

Turns out, I like the backend more than I expected.

I like connecting components to APIs, building database models, thinking about structure, security, integrations, and all the invisible things that make an application actually work. CSS, meanwhile, is still a negotiation.

Today, I work at the intersection of Product Design and Full-Stack Engineering. I don’t care much about making something pixel-perfect just for the sake of it. I care about making it useful, structured, secure, and worth coming back to.

That’s also why I built YeaIBreathe. It started as something I wanted for myself and grew into an experiment in building a product that could actually become part of someone’s life.

I like building things that have a reason to exist.

And I’m still figuring out exactly what I’ll build next.