I live in Raleigh, North Carolina with my wife, Rebecca. We’ve been here since 2017, and it’s become home to us. Before that, I lived in India and Saudi Arabia, and later in Louisville, Kentucky, where we met, got married, and started building our life together.

Living across cultures shaped how I navigate difference and how I pay attention to people. It taught me that belonging is rarely automatic. It’s built, practiced, and sustained over time, usually through small choices that don’t look dramatic from the outside.

One of the ways Rebecca and I practice that is through our local board-gaming community at Quest Game Night. I love teaching games and helping people feel comfortable at the table, especially when something is new or unfamiliar. There’s something meaningful about creating a space where people can relax, laugh, try, fail, and try again. I’m especially drawn to cooperative games, with Pandemic being an all-time favorite. But what matters most to me isn’t the game itself. It’s the people around the table, and the way shared play can turn strangers into something like friends.

Faith is also a formative part of my life. It shapes how I understand dignity of each individual, responsibility towards one another, and love of neighbor. It anchors the way I try to move through the world, and the kind of person I want to be in the spaces I’m privileged to be a part of. Always happy to help explore and discuss it with anyone curious.

Outside of work and the above, you’ll usually find me reading nonfiction, Superman comics, delving deeper into The Lord of the Rings (both reading the book and rewatching the 2000s movie trilogy), or spending quality time with the people in our communities.

“The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.”

– J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

Work

I work at the intersection of people, systems, and responsibility. I care about how communities are formed, how organizations function, and whether the structures we rely on serve the people within them well.

At the center of my work is a simple conviction: people are not tools. They are not simply interchangeable parts in a system. They are worth listening to carefully, investing in patiently, and treating as valuable ends in themselves.

I’m motivated by helping people grow into their full potential, and am interested in building systems that support that growth rather than getting in the way. I’m particularly interested in the intersection where people and structures meet. When systems are poorly designed, they exhaust people. But when designed well, they can create clarity, trust, and room for meaningful work.

My approach is grounded in active listening, systems thinking, and collaborative problem-solving. I value clarity over cleverness, responsibility over performance, and steady improvement over quick wins. I’ve developed these instincts across higher education, business administration, and information technology, with a consistent aim: steward responsibility that I’ve been entrusted with carefully, and work to build systems that can better serve the people who rely on them.

Connect

If you’re interested in collaborating, building something together, or simply having a thoughtful conversation, I’m always glad to connect.