The story
Before it was a job, it was a body thing.
I was the kid beatboxing in the back of the bus, always on beat — that part was never effort, it was just where I lived. I learned the djembe, a West African hand drum, and spent years aligning with other people's grooves before I ever touched a deck. And I was the playlist guy my whole life: house parties, the triathlon club, the long late-night study sessions. Rhythm was in me long before I had a word for what I was doing with it.
Engineering came after. I took a mechanical-engineering degree and ran the 3D-printing lab in college — the part of me that wants a thing to work the same way every single time, no excuses. For a while those felt like two different people: the one who reads a room and the one who builds the machine. The work I do now is the two married together (no pun intended). Musical instinct does the live read; the engineer makes sure nothing about your night is left to chance.
I started DJing in 2015 and played my first wedding in 2016. For eight years I trained and stayed booked under an agency while I held down tech and startup day jobs — every kind of crowd, every kind of room. In 2023 I went out on my own. Across 350+ weddings, the read has only gotten faster and the systems quieter, until the only thing you notice is that the floor keeps moving and the venue stays the backdrop.
Off the clock you'll find me on a climbing wall, out for a run, under a barbell, or skateboarding down to the beach. Home is my wife and a cat named Alby, who has strong opinions about none of this.
