For most of his life Justin was an indoor person, and good at it. Pokémon first — the fifth generation is the correct answer and he will defend it — then Zelda, and Ocarina of Time, which he still believes is one of the best games ever made. Years of Minecraft. Whole summers accounted for without leaving the house, and no real complaints about it.

For a while he was good enough at Valorant to wonder about going pro. He got far enough to see the next tier clearly, and to understand there are levels to this. What actually ended it was quieter: he wanted more out of a day than a day of that.

So now he would rather be on a trail. Hiking is the thing his weekends get built around, and mountaineering is what he wants next — Rainier, and whatever else the Cascades will give him. He is learning to wild camp. He has recently taken up fishing and is bad at it in a way he finds encouraging.

The list of places keeps growing: the Swiss Alps, the Dolomites, Banff. The real plan is Europe — all of it, one enormous backpack, hostels, nothing scheduled tighter than a train. The point of the trip is the people; the excuse is the buildings. He loves old architecture, castles and medieval stonework and cathedrals that took three hundred years, and half suspects he was born several centuries late.

He listens to a lot of jazz and has still never sat in a proper jazz bar, which he intends to fix. He also raves; EDC in Vegas and Tomorrowland in Belgium are written down as plans rather than maybes. Piano is on the back burner, not abandoned.

The rest is easy to summarise. He played badminton, spent most of college in the gym, and is looking for someone patient enough to teach him golf. He will watch any Marvel film, or frankly any film. And he would, with no embarrassment whatsoever, die for ice cream — with Jollibee a close second.

Teaching assistant, object-oriented programming

Weekly lab hours for 150+ students, feedback on assignments and exams, and a standing arrangement with the instructors to debug whatever Java has done this week.

Webmaster & external professional development chair

Keeps the fraternity's site current, runs workshops and service events, and is midway through rebuilding the whole thing as a MERN app so the next webmaster inherits something maintainable.

The Theta Tau website

Inherited on WordPress, being rebuilt as a MERN app so it survives him.

Course material, from the other side

Java examples and feedback written for 150 students a term.

This website

Deliberately plain, deliberately in the third person.

The one he took, then taught

Explaining inheritance to 150 students a term is how he found out which parts he had only half understood.

The one that pointed at the job

First contact with cloud services and model APIs as ordinary tools, which is most of what he did at Honeywell a year later.