About

mithrilmaker

mithrilmaker

Hello, I’m mithrilmaker

About

Hello!

I’m a she/her and Software Engineer.

Key events since 2010

First person in all of my family to move 8000 miles away from home
Landed my first job in San Francisco
29th employee of Periscope.tv (now Twitter)
Adopted a new pen name @mithrilmaker
Fell in love and got married to @kuthkameen
Restarted martial arts (10+ years and counting)
Learned to Ski (Intermediate level)
Started baking (2017)
Traveled a lot in Asia: Vietnam, Indonesia, Japan, Taiwan, Thailand and India
Went from a life long strict vegetarian diet to eat meat and seafood to survive(in the aforementioned countries)
Live in Chinatown, San Francisco (also the birthplace of Bruce Lee; he was born half a block away!)
Biking for 8+ years. My longest bike ride in a day is 82 miles; total of 150 miles in a weekend
Planned and executed my wedding in a different country
Traveled to Hawaii
First triathlon in the frigid Pacific (2018)
Started making to-do lists
Gained and lost 30 lbs
Got back to oil painting
Got off Instagram
Developed an interest in Buddhism
Traveled to Japan to study Okinawan karate
Carefully designed and prepared a zen meal for 9 nuns in a monastery
A decade of dancing: Zumba, Bollywood, Salsa, Flamenco…
Started writing Haiku
Planned a 15 person pop-up dinner with friends
Started doodling on my iPad pro
Created and printed my first book of favorite quotes with adobe Indesign
Bought a DSLR and learned how to use it,
but took over 20K photos on my phone
Read 200+ books (50% non-fiction)
Learning to read and write Japanese
Learned to drive when I was 29

2020 onwards…

Did a lot of digital painting on my ipad to cope in the early days of the Pandemic
Created mithrilmaker.com
Bought an amazing house with @kuthkameen
Went viral on Twitter
Drove 15000 miles
Bought my first car
Started Running
First visit to Yosemite!
Hiked the half dome with @kuthkameen (21 miles and 4000ft elevation!)
My brother moved to the United States!
Became a plant mom
Started The Wheel of Time
Set up our new home
Started Discworld
Redid the garage and the roof of our home
Installed solar power
Did a sprint Triathlon
Became the Android Lead on my team
Finished an Olympic Triathlon at 8000ft
Finished the SF Half Marathon at 2:16!\

Thank you and Happy Reading!

Follow me on Twitter @mithrilmaker