He grew up in Hansville, WA and attended North Kitsap High School in Poulsbo, WA. In June 2009 he graduated from the University of Washington with a Bachelors degree in Computer Engineering with Honors. During his time at UW he interned at Creative Commons and Google. After his graduation he worked at Google full-time as a software engineer on Google Maps until June 2015. In July 2015 he started developing a number of open source software and hardware projects which culminated in his company Chickadee Tech. Below are slide files for presentations he's given and links to many of the projects he has done.