I grew up in a computer lab cracking software and pirating books [1] onto my Kindle [2]. This frugality later branched into optimization, and the first program I properly built helped me arbitrage fire staves in an online MMO.

When I later realized that arbitrage was the same in any market, I got into crypto. The only difference, actually, was that I didn't have infrastructure that was competitive. So, sophomore year I got an internship in crypto infrastructure [3]! I didn't actually pursue the arbitrage but I did trade for a bit and I wrote about it here. Junior year, alongside my IB diploma, I joined RevisionDojo. I worked alongside two-ish other engineers as we scaled from 3,000 to nearly 200,000 students. We also got into YC's F24 batch! This all coincided with the advent of GPT-4, and I'm pretty sure we worked on some of the first AI-generated lessons ever.

My first year of college I spent some time thinking about what it is I really wanted in life. In this time, I went to the Himalayas to digitally preserve ancient manuscripts, Japan for… fun, and I was also interested in RL for a while with competitive Pokémon. Perhaps unsurprisingly though, I came back to startups and this fall I'll be at Melius in New York. Almost all of these were only possible because someone had responded to my cold email/message. If I can help you, reach out!