I was born in Auckland, New Zealand. When I was 5, my parents and I moved from New Zealand to Stillwater, OK, USA. After graduating high school, I attended Oklahoma State University for a semester before deciding to take a gap year. That gap year turned into three years. Finally, in 2011, I decided I had had enough of working retail and other odd jobs. What I wanted to do was write software. So, I re-enrolled at Oklahoma State and finished an entire year. I spent the summer after that year in San Diego for an iOS developer internship. As the summer drew close, I was offered a full-time position.

In February 2018, I adopted my sweet boy Sterling and moved into my travel trailer full-time. We have been traveling the States ever since.