Welcome everyone to episode number 98 of Underserved. Joining me today is

Goosea Head of Data Engineering at Group 1001. Let's get started.

Welcome to this week's edition of Underserved, the podcast for the rest of the

tech industry, where we focus on stories of tech industry leaders, their insights,

and their lessons learned. And now, your host, Andrew Jalina.

Thank you so much for joining me today on Underserved.

Thank you, Andrew. You're really excited to be here.

So, I believe you are our first guest ever that grew up in Belize.

What was that like? It was interesting. Very interesting to grow up in a smaller

country. I would say that it was very peaceful for the most part when I was growing up.

I think what was interesting is the fact that I was like one of the very few Chinese people

there. So it was kind of interesting. You've ever watched that show fresh off the

boat and how there's like the kid opened up his lunch box and everyone is like

going around saying, ew, what's that? That's exactly my story growing up in

Belize. This is the food of my people. This is a food of my people. It's that

weird. What was your family doing there? We had a modest little grocery store.

My dad is a wild one. Like when my mom was like six months pregnant, he decided,

I don't want to be in China anymore. I don't want kids to grow up in this like

communist environment. So next thing you know, they hopped on a plane.

They travel around and they land in Belize and you realize that, oh wow,

it's two hours away from the US. That's his ultimate goal. It's an English-speaking

country. So his kids, that is me, can grow up learning English. So it would be

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