Bridging China
& the World

Looking for work in America on a student visa, I signed up on every job board — Dice, Monster, CareerBuilder. Every morning meant manually refreshing my profile to stay visible to recruiters. A developer should not rely on fast fingers. So I wrote a bot to do it with a single keystroke. Problem solved. Lesson encoded for life.

"Code is leverage. Fast fingers are not."

A colleague pulled sales records every two hours — frontend vs database — and emailed managers to confirm they matched. One day she was sick. I was asked to cover. That violated everything I believed about how a developer's time should be spent. I asked a coworker to hold the fort while I spent the day writing code to automate the entire workflow. It worked perfectly. And it made her role redundant. I have never forgotten that.

"Every automation has a human cost. Build anyway — but never forget."

A business owner doing greenhouse farming asked me to build a controller with a Raspberry Pi. I had zero prior knowledge. I said yes. After weeks of learning, failing, and trying again, I hit Enter — and foam started blowing into the greenhouse exactly as designed. In that moment I learned what elation means. Not from a dictionary. From real life.

"Say yes first. Learn while doing. Elation is the reward."