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 (and if you've somehow found your way here, definitely reach out), you can contact me by email at edreeswahezi at gmail dot com

Some other places you can find me online can be found on my Links page.

Currently...

Last updated April 30th, 2026

Living:

In the San Francisco Bay Area.

Doing:

Picking up some new hobbies and revisiting old ones while figuring out what to do with my life after leaving the tech industry.

Reading:

How To Read A Book by Mortimer J. Adler

Playing:

Recently finished Resident Evil 9: Requiem (check Backloggd for some of my thoughts on it).

Things I'm Into / Getting Into

  • Video Games - My favorite medium. I enjoy engaging with them at all levels and discussing their history, industry, and creation/development.
  • Language Learning - I've officially dabbled with the basics of a few other languages here and there.
    • Persian
    • Japanese
    • Spanish
    • Arabic
  • 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 - Trying to learn both Guitar and Piano. You can find some of my attempts at composing on my links page. My gear:
    • Piano - Yamaha P-115
    • Acoustic Guitar - Seagull S6
    • Electric Guitar - Ibanez RG421
    • Electric Bass - Yamaha TRBX174
    • Microphone - Shure SM57
    • Audio Interface - Scarlett 2i2
    • DAW - Logic Pro
    • MIDI Controller - Arturia MiniLab Mk II
    • Notation Software - Musescore
    • Plugins - Pianoteq 8, Spitfire Audio (BBC Orchestra), Neural DSP (Tone King, Soldano, Archetypes Cory Wong and Petrucci)
  • Programming/Development - Playing around with some basic web and game development.
  • Photography - Recently bought a camera and am currently figuring out how to use it.

Favorites

  • Video Games
    • The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
    • Final Fantasy X
    • Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence
    • 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 1-2
    • Metroid Fusion
    • And the list goes on...
  • Color - 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
  • Pokémon Starter - Squirtle
  • 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
    • To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
    • The Hobbit/The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
    • Musashi - Eiji Yoshikawa
    • The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
    • 1984 - George Orwell
    • Special Mention: The Harry Potter series and all the Goosebumps books I read over and over again as a kid.