Background
I really really dislike resumes, so instead here's a history of some things that I've done. This isn't a complete work history and isn't fully chronological, these are just things I thought were particularly cool.
I spend a good chunk of my time working in tech. When I’m not, I’m usually making art. The two things are connected by relentless drive to create things that didn’t exist before. I went to UC Berkeley until 2018, and did most of my early work in the the startup/tech ecosystem it’s connected to. I’ve been a founder myself, I’ve done engineering and product for others, and I’ve angel invested on behalf of one of the valley's most famous venture firms. I'm currently in Berlin, writing music and working on an infrastructure project in the web3 space.
At other times I’ve been an amateur journalist, a semi-professional esports commentator, and a competitive urban dancer.
I’ve worked on everything from engineering to product.
In summer 2015 some friends and I took a startup through Y Combinator. We raised a seed round and I dropped out of school for a while. I eventually dropped back in, and barely dodged dropping out a second time before finishing my degree while working at a (different) startup.
In January 2019 I joined a mid sized startup doing finance for low income Americans. For two of my years there I did product management, at times as the sole PM. I was responsible for a zero interest payday loan replacement used by over a million Americans, building technology in a highly regulated space with evolving government policy. As part of that job I ran our response to the COVID-19 epidemic, developing a skillset around shipping complex multi-stakeholder projects on extremely short timelines.
Collegiate hackathons have a special place in my heart, and I helped start the world's largest, Cal Hacks, at UC Berkeley in 2014. I also used to compete in them. My favorite was a project paying for a Haitian girl’s heart surgery.
I think about security a lot, largely because I've been doing full stack web since I was a teenager, in the era of getting-your-lamp-drupal-installation-sql-injected. In 2015 I was a member of the Berke1337 squad that placed second in the nation at the National Collegiate Cybersecurity Defense Competition. I focused mostly of web application and server defense.