About Me

Hello hello, I'm Edrees (pronounced "E-Drees" with a long "ee" sound in the middle).

Contact Info and Links

If you want to reach out, you can contact me by email at edreeswahezi at gmail dot com

My Discord username is: edzisedzi

Some other places you can find me online:

Currently...

Last updated October 12th, 2024

Working:

I currently work at Crunchyroll as a Software Development Engineer in Test.

Living:

Based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Doing:

Working on building skills in programming, learning new languages, piano/guitar/composition, and art/illustration.

Reading:

The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt and starting a reread of The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien. Recently finished Children of Dune.

Playing:

Street Fighter 6, Octopath Traveler, and recently finished The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom.

Things I'm Into / Getting Into

  • Video Games - I like playing them when I have time, talking about them, keeping up with the industry, everything. I'm currently trying to learn more about game development.
  • Language Learning - I'm unfortunately only fluent in English, but I've dabbled with the basics of a few other languages here and there and keep telling myself I'll pick them back up eventually:
    • Farsi / Persion (Dari)
    • Japanese
    • Arabic
    • Spanish
  • Drawing - I was a chronic doodler as a kid, but never really pursued art seriously. As an adult, I've been trying to get back into it.
  • Music - I'm currently trying to learn both Guitar and Piano. Check out my attempts at composing on my music page.
  • Programming/Development - Always trying to improve, currently diving into Web and Game Development.

Favorites

  • Video Games
    • The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
    • Final Fantasy X
    • Metal Gear Solid 3
    • Ape Escape 1-3
    • Dark Souls
    • Outer Wilds
    • Sonic Adventure 2: Battle
    • Kingdom Hearts 1-2
    • Skies of Arcadia: Legends
    • Pokemon Blue/Yellow/Silver
    • Golden Sun
    • Metroid Fusion
    • So many more...
  • Color - Depends on the day, but usually a dark shade of Purple is a safe bet. I'm partial to blues and greens too, can't go wrong with Teal.
  • Season - Winter
  • Movies
    • The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
    • Hot Fuzz
    • Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
    • Pretty much all of the Disney 2D animated movies from the 90's
    • The Truman Show
    • 5 Centimeters per Second
  • Books
    • The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
    • To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
    • The Hobbit/The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
    • Musashi - Eiji Yoshikawa
    • Harry Potter - J.K. Rowling
    • 1984 - George Orwell
    • Dune Messiah - Frank Herbert
    • Special Mention: All the Goosebumps books I read repeatedly as a kid.
    • I hope to add quite a few more books to this list soon as I've got a monstrous backlog I'm working through.