Hey, I’m Isaac 👋

How I Got Here

My technical journey began at a DOS prompt on decommissioned office PCs my father brought home. In the late 1990s, a local LAN-café and repair-shop owner became an informal mentor, teaching me hardware diagnostics and custom builds after school. For my fifteenth birthday, he set me up with a shared-hosting account, and I spent that summer publishing clan-site templates for the clantemplates.com community—my first taste of contributing to something bigger than myself.

Over time, that curiosity about how websites worked evolved into building my own from scratch. I moved from editing templates in Dreamweaver to experimenting with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript through online tutorials and independent study. I was always learning—through forums, videos, courses, and sheer trial and error.

Eventually, I dove into real-time 3D—experimenting with different engines, but ultimately found my footing in Unity and C#. I spent years building prototypes and small games before hitting a creative wall with Unity while developing a desktop pet project. I needed lower-level control to achieve the seamless, transparent overlay behavior I was aiming for. So I shifted gears and learned modern C++ and the Win32 API from the ground up.

Whether I’m hacking together a tiny sprite overlay or architecting a full-stack app, I always come back to the same loop: prototype, refine, polish, deliver. That’s how I think—and how I build.