Engineer Builder Teacher Former foster youth Mother

Engineer · Teacher · Former foster youth

I build operating systems for people the system overlooked — including the version of me at eighteen. I build operating systems for people the system overlooked

Director of Engineering & QAExecutive Director, Dayrol AcademyFounder, Dayrol App

Director of Engineering & QA Founder

The Throughline

One practice, many rooms.

I aged out of foster care. I became a teacher. I taught middle school English for six years before I ever wrote a line of production code. Then I went through a bootcamp, became a developer, then a test automation engineer, then a Scrum Master, then a product manager, then a Director of Engineering and QA — building an entire engineering organization from zero, no tooling, no playbook.

I am also a single mother of two sons. A Gates Millennium Scholar. The founder of a budget & bill manager app, a nonprofit, and a community for people walking the road I walked.

None of this is a detour from anything else. The same practice that lets me build a quality engineering org from nothing is the practice that helped me throughout my own foster care experience and through a master's degree as a single mom. The same systems thinking that designs an AI enablement framework designs a digital literacy program for those who need it most. The same eye that sees what a team is missing sees what a eighteen-year-old aging out of the system is missing.

I build operating systems for people the existing systems overlooked. That's the whole job.

Foster care

Teacher

Bootcamp

Engineer

Director

Builder for the people I came from

The Practice

What I actually do — in any room I'm in.

Building From Zero

I build engineering organizations from nothing — no tooling, no playbook — and I build pathways from nothing for foster youth and single moms with no template to follow. Same skill: designing the structure that wasn't there.

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Operating Systems for Teams and Lives

Process, rituals, decision frameworks, and rhythms that turn chaos into something predictable. I do this for engineering teams scaling under pressure and for people trying to build a stable life from an unstable starting point.

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AI Enablement & Digital Literacy

Competency rubrics, enablement programs, and curricula that make new technology actually usable. For my engineering team at Springboard. For foster youth and teen moms who deserve real fluency, not surface-level access.

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Quality, Risk, and Trust

SOC 2, NIST CSF, ISO 27001, FERPA — and the human equivalent: building spaces and systems people can trust because the structure is real. Compliance and care are the same discipline.

Selected Work

Evidence, in both directions.

Org Design

Building Engineering & QA From Zero at Springboard

Started with no tooling, no documented process — built the org, the hiring bar, the QA discipline, and a GRC framework that holds up to SOC 2, NIST CSF, ISO 27001, and FERPA. Building with a quality-first mindset moved from a wish to a rinse and repeatable system.

Community Infrastructure

Dayrol Academy: Digital Literacy Built for the Overlooked

Technology, tools, and curriculum shaped for foster youth, teen moms, single moms, and nonprofits who support us — real fluency in software, money, and self-direction. Designed to graduate people and programs, not enroll them.

AI Enablement

AI Adoption Framework

A competency rubric, enablement programming, and an impact dashboard that lets you see who's using what, where it's sticking, and where it isn't. Adoption is incremental and made to last.

Lived Practice

There's A Better Way: A Community for People Walking My Road

A channel and a community for current and former foster youth, teen moms, and single moms — honest conversations about getting out, getting somewhere, and what nobody told us about money, school, or identity along the way.

I don't see my path as nonlinear. I see it as the curriculum.

— Temani

Writing

Notes from the practice.

Mar 2026Engineering

Building an engineering org without a playbook

What you do in the first ninety days when there's no rituals, and no one to tell you what "good" looks like. Notes from the inside of a from-zero build.

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Feb 2026Community

What I tell foster youth about money before I tell them anything else

Before resumes, before college, before any of it — the eight things about money that nobody told me, and that I now refuse to let go untold.

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Jan 2026Both

From instance thinking to framework thinking

The single cognitive shift that changed how I lead engineers, raise sons, and build curricula. Once you see it, you can't un-see it.

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Who I Build For

The version of me at fifteen needed proof this was possible.

I build for engineering teams that need real infrastructure built from zero. I build for current and former foster youth, current and former teen moms, and single moms who are trying to construct a life inside systems that weren't built for them. I build for the nonprofits who support us because the infrastructure they need to serve people well is the same kind of infrastructure I build everywhere else. I build for all of them because they are the same work. If you found this site through a recruiter or LinkedIn, this section is for you too — because the practice you're hiring is the practice you're reading about right now.

For

Engineering Teams

Org design, QA strategy, AI enablement, GRC, and the operating systems that make quality real instead of performative.

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The Community

Dayrol Academy, the channel, and a space for foster youth, teen moms, and single moms navigating school, work, money, and identity. No performance, no shame.

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Nonprofits

Digital infrastructure, technology strategy, and program support for organizations that need their systems to actually serve the people they serve.

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About

I live in Alabama, with my two sons. Outside of work, I love flowers, coffee, tea, paper planners, and books. One day I want to own a coffee-flower shop hybrid where people come to slow down, be present with something beautiful, and exhale — the kind of place that feels like the life you're building toward, not the one you're running from. I'm faith-driven, systems-obsessed, and I believe finishing matters more than starting.

Faith. Family. Discipline. Presence. Stewardship.

Let's talk.

Hiring, speaking, partnerships, coaching, community work — all welcome. Same inbox, same person.

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