She was born and raised in Northern California, and has pursued a course through the adult entertainment industry by webcamming, feature dancing, modeling for virtual reality apps and sex toys, and independently producing video content.

She also started taking pole dancing classes around that time, and then obtained a job as an exotic dancer at Sporty's Bikini Bar in Sunnyvale, California, where she worked for three-and-a-half years.

[10] In September 2022, the Amsterdam-based sex tech company Kiiroo announced it had released a molded stroker sleeve based on Sunshine.

[12] She has stated she has employed a strategy of gradually expanding the types of content she has produced, starting with solo, then girl-girl, and then moving to boy-girl videos.

[13] She produced and directed her first boy-girl video co-starring Sean Lawless in December 2020, and it received the 2021 Vid of the Year Award from ManyVids.

In 2019, she starred in the first episode of the soft-core porn parody series LadyKiller TV with Nikki Benz, which was entitled "Camp Blood Sex" and based on Friday the 13th.