[ 01 / ABOUT ]
Me: Ikani
(ee — kah — nee)
Born in Tonga, I came up loving family, BYU football and rugby, and the endless pull of learning something new. That curiosity turned into a career: I enjoy understanding a business deeply and then developing software that actually moves it.
Over a decade I've worked across mobile, backend, and frontend — as an individual contributor, a senior engineer, and an engineering manager. I care about psychological ownership, momentum, and helping the next generation of engineers — especially minorities, women, and young people — find their way into STEM.
Service above self. Keep moving forward.
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.”— Stephen R. Covey