Hi There, I’m a professional hobbyist who can rarely sit still! A friend challenged me to create this portfolio site while I was learning to program during a sabbatical, so here we are. I code to make life easier. The swimming pool near me is always busy, so I built a small app to figure out the quietest times. As a frequent traveler, I created a dashboard to map out where I and all my money went during my gap year. And as a biologist following clinical trials for a disease close to my heart, I wrote a script to track updates so I don’t have to scroll endlessly through registry pages. Professionally, I’ve followed a nonstandard career path that occasionally earns me a raised eyebrow or two. I hold a PhD in one of my favorite subjects, infectious diseases, and have worked in both biotech startups and big pharma. Instead of staying on the conveyor belt, I took a step back, believing that in a 40 plus year career, a year or two off is an investment, not a detour. So I travelled to far flung corners of the world, hoping to tick off my bucket list, only to find it getting longer with each stop. As time goes on, the voice nudging me toward programming keeps getting louder. So, as part of this sabbatical, I took on yet another hobby, coding, and the deeper I go, the more I want to bridge the worlds of biology and software. Hence this site: a public notebook, a playground, and proof that even a biologist in her 30s can learn to code. If something here sparks your interest, feel free to get in touch!