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title: "Hi! 👋🏻"
date: 2022-09-03T12:14:32-07:00
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{{< circular_image id=me name=me class="float-right" width=200
  alt="A photo of me, wearing a hat, standing in front of a stone background">}}

I'm Eryn. My pronouns are [she/her][p]. I'm a queer trans woman. I live in San
Francisco, CA, on the unceded ancestral lands of the Ramaytush Ohlone people,
with my [two cats][cats]. I was born in Seattle, WA and grew up in Phoenix, AZ.
I attended [Oberlin College][ob] where I got a degree in Computer Science.
{{< tess >}} is my girlfriend.

I speak English natively, and Spanish too, though I always need more practice.

## Hobbies

I've been a musician for most of my life. I started on the piano at age seven,
played trumpet in high school, and have picked up a smattering of other
instruments along the way. I still play piano occasionally, but my current
musical obsession is my modular synthesizer. I occasionally record things, and
I'm hoping to share them here on this site, but for now, they're on
[SoundCloud][sc] and [Bandcamp][bc].

I do try to spend my non-work time away from the computer, but every so often I
get inspired to hack on something. Those projects usually end up on
[GitHub][gh].

Other things I've picked up over the years include: ceramics, calligraphy,
knitting, bread baking, bicycling, photography, and astronomy. You can never
have too many hobbies, right?

## Professional

I've worked as a software engineer since 2011 for a variety of companies around
the San Francisco Bay Area. I've been at Apple since early 2016, first on the
iOS Accessibility team, and now on the Authentication Experience team.

Check out my [résumé][r] for more details.

## Say Hello

You can find me in [lots of other corners of the Internet][where-am-i]. I'm most
active on [Twitter][t] and [Instagram][i]. I post music on [SoundCloud][sc] and
[Bandcamp][bc]. I'm on [GitHub][gh] for coding projects. You can also send me an
[email][eml].

[p]: http://pronoun.is/she
[cats]: {{< ref "/cats" >}}
[ob]: https://www.oberlin.edu
[r]: {{< ref "/resume" >}}
[t]: https://twitter.com/erynofwales
[i]: https://www.instagram.com/erynofwales/
[sc]: https://soundcloud.com/purlsnbeeps
[bc]: https://erynwells.bandcamp.com/releases
[gh]: https://github.com/erynofwales
[eml]: mailto:Eryn%20Wells<eryn@erynwells.me>
[where-am-i]: {{< ref "/about/where-am-i" >}}
