// 02 — MY STORY
Morehouse Made.
Still Building.
I am a Morehouse College alumnus and software engineer who learned by doing, in environments where the work had real consequences and there was no room to fake it.
I graduated from Morehouse College with a B.S. in Software Engineering, and over four years I had the opportunity to contribute meaningfully at organizations that most engineers only add to a list of aspirations. At McKinsey & Company, at Honeywell, and at the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, I was not shadowing. I was writing production code, resolving defects, and building tools that people relied on to do their jobs.
“Whether something compiles is the lowest possible bar. What I care about is whether it holds up under load, recovers gracefully under failure, and earns the confidence of the people depending on it.”
My interest in backend and infrastructure engineering is not incidental. It is where the genuinely difficult problems live. The frontend communicates what a system does. The backend determines whether it deserves to exist. I am drawn to the layer of the stack responsible for correctness, durability, and scale, because those properties are what separate software that matters from software that merely ships.
Each internship sharpened a different instinct. At McKinsey, I learned to move with urgency inside ambiguous, high-stakes environments without sacrificing rigor. At Honeywell, I developed a disciplined approach to production quality, understanding that closing a ticket is never the same as solving a problem. At the Metropolitan Water District, working on SCADA systems that serve millions of residents across Southern California taught me what it means for software to carry real responsibility. That experience permanently altered how I think about the craft.
Beyond engineering, I lead. I served as Director of Logistics for Morehouse Motors, Director of Compliance for the Bonner Office of Community Service, and as head of the Advanced Coding Collective, where I worked to help students find their first foothold in the industry. Representation in this field is something I take seriously, and I invest in it accordingly.
Today I work full-time as a software engineer in Atlanta. Outside of that role, I am applying the same instincts to a smaller, more local problem: helping service businesses stop losing customers to missed messages, scattered quote details, and slow follow-up. I am talking with local owners, learning where the real friction is, and offering early pilots that solve one workflow well before adding anything else.