About Me I was born in 1999 in Zhaotong, a small city in Yunnan, China. Growing up, I was the classic “troublemaker”—smoking, getting into fights (but never at the front because I was too scared), and absolutely sucking at school. My English? Disastrous. In my high school entrance exam (out of 150 points), I scored 19. My English teacher probably needed therapy after grading my test.

But fate loves plot twists. I was sent to an international school in Kunming, then later to Hamilton, Canada, for my final year of high school. Somehow, my IELTS score jumped to 7 (I still don’t know how), and now? I can speak fluently like a native. From 19 points to full conversations—I don’t know what happened either.

In university, I dreamed of becoming a big boss (or as English speakers say, an Entrepreneur), so I majored in Marketing. Then I realized: classroom business theories don’t help you build real businesses. So I switched to Mathematics—because math is cool, and I thought I was good at it.

Reality hit me hard. Math is indeed cool, but also hellishly difficult. Even with a 3.7-3.8 GPA, I still question if I ever truly understood any course I took. But math gave me two invaluable skills: breaking down problems and self-learning, which later shaped my programming mindset.

To improve my job prospects, I switched to a Math & CS Double Honors program and discovered that I was actually pretty good at coding. At Snow Software, I became the only Co-op student to ever be a Story Owner and even got my offer by fixing my interviewer’s buggy test case (which, as it turned out, was intentional to test if I could think outside the box).

Now at Devolutions, I write tons of Rust, TypeScript, and C# code, dive deep into multithreading and protocol-level development, and constantly tinker with side projects, startups, and market experiments. But one thing remains true:

"I don’t always know what users truly want, but I definitely know what they hate."

And maybe, just maybe, that’s my biggest advantage as a future entrepreneur.