My Story
"The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way."
I grew up in Marietta, Georgia, with roots in the Democratic Republic of Congo, playing soccer from a young age and falling in love with technology by middle school. That combination shaped everything that followed: I committed to the Naval Academy to play soccer, tore my ACL senior year of high school, and used my gap year as a computer science student at Kennesaw State University before reporting to Annapolis in June 2024.
At the Academy, I studied Cyber Operations as a Division I student-athlete, held leadership roles in my company, and interned in cybersecurity at JHU's Applied Physics Laboratory, one of the country's top defense research labs. A medical separation ended that chapter earlier than planned, but I walked away with an Active Secret Clearance, real-world cybersecurity experience, and a lot of clarity.
Now I'm building toward what's next, finishing my CompTIA Network+, CompTIA Cloud+, and AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner certifications by the end of fall, applying to programs for Spring 2027, and looking for my next internship or job in tech.
