Author of Wednesdays Of Wisdom ✨, a weekly newsletter focused on timeless principles for daily action. Co-founder of Addisuna Coffee Co. ☕️, an Ethiopian specialty coffee company sponsoring children's education in Ethiopia. University of Notre Dame alumnus (Go Irish ☘️). Currently operating and building out of New York, New York 🗽. Growing the good in business with IBM Consulting.
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- Wednesdays Of Wisdom: a new letter every Wednesday on Substack.
- Addisuna Coffee Co.: Sunbloom and Daybreak in bags, and 18 students in school for 2026.
- Addisuna Command Center: building the company's operating system with Izaiah.
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A weekly letter on faith, growth and living with intention. Every letter illustrated, delivered every Wednesday on Substack. Each letter is built around one idea worth carrying through the week, drawn from scripture, the people I learn from, and the work of building a company. The full archive lives on my own site, organised by theme and motif. The site is engineered from scratch: Astro on Cloudflare Pages, with site-wide search, a related-letters graph that links each letter to the ones it grew out of, and an original illustrated universe of characters behind the art. By October 2026 the site had 471 commits and 102 merged pull requests behind it.
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Ethiopian specialty coffee that pays for school. Co-founded with Izaiah Steury while we were students at Notre Dame. Two flagship roasts launched in March 2026: Sunbloom, a medium roast, and Daybreak, a light roast. The beans come from Ethiopia and are roasted locally in partnership with Quad Coffee Lab. I run the brand, the website and the systems behind them: the Shopify storefront, its search and AI visibility, and the books. The storefront theme is versioned on GitHub: 347 commits and 38 merged pull requests by October 2026, including a mobile speed pass that took its Lighthouse score from 46 to 70.
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Every bag sold funds school for children in Ethiopia. For the 2026 school year that is 18 students, each supplied with textbooks, school supplies, uniforms and hygiene products, plus mobility support for three children who need it.
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The company's single source of truth for to-dos, people, finances and inventory, built and maintained with Izaiah. It runs on Cloudflare Pages and D1 behind single sign-on, reconciles against the bank, and includes an investor room. Every change ships through a branch and a pull request: 164 merged in its first eight days (30 Sep to 7 Oct 2026).
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Dictation for macOS that runs entirely on your machine. Rust core, Swift interface, Whisper for transcription, engineered so no audio ever leaves the device. Bilingual auto-detection between English and Spanish, a personal dictionary that fixes the names it keeps getting wrong, and a dashboard that measures time saved rather than words typed.
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Client work, a team capstone called AskRX, and a portfolio of what I learned along the way.
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Read the story: Student-founded coffee company sponsors 18 students in Ethiopia, The Irish Rover.