John Downey
I co-own Avalon Vapor, a vaping retail business in St. John's, Newfoundland, with my husband Tristan Wall. We run three shops and an online store, and we mix our own house e-liquid line in the back lab.
Most of my time goes into the systems behind the business: inventory and reordering, reporting and compliance pipelines, and the small internal web apps that keep everything moving. These days I build most of it with AI in the loop, which has changed what one person can ship in a day.
Home is St. John's. We also spend a month or two each year at our place in Playa del Carmen, Mexico.
Off the clock it's science and technology, investing, idea-driven science fiction (usually as audiobooks), strength training, and music that runs from Jefferson Airplane to Bad Bunny to recomposed Vivaldi.