ABOUT ME

I finished my Masters in Information Science from the University of Pittsburgh in 2017. Basically CS, but more backend/database focused. Way more SQL than I ever want to touch ever again. I guess it's somewhat ironic considering blockchains are virtually glorified ledgers, so not technically unrelated at all to my studies. My interest in emerging technologies and cool tech led me to discover Bitcoin & Ethereum earlier than most. Being totally captivated by blockchain and its disruptive potential, I made the move to NYC and joined the team at ConsenSys.

Working at ConsenSys during 2017–2020 was a crazy time as the mainstream media and general public had just begun to take interest in web3. In the early stages, our company was a thriving blockchain-startup incubation studio that moved fast and tried everything. I gained an immense amount of experience in scaling a startup, telling the story, and staying agile in a perpetually volatile market.

For the next three years, I joined Stacks as a Developer Advocate & Community Manager. I helped equip devs and founders with the tools they needed to build powerful apps on top of Bitcoin, which at the time was a truly novel concept for a traditionally stagnant ecosystem. I mentored hackathons, gave presentations at conferences and workshops around the country, wrote technical content for the blog, produced video demos & explainers, and launched a Campus Advocacy Program.

The following 18 months, I reunited with my former ConsenSys coworker Rob Solomon. He was the co-founder of a new DePIN project attempting to disrupt the notoriously centralized automotive industry by putting vehicle data in the hands of drivers. They were in need of a guerilla marketer with a finger on the pulse of the diehard crypto crowd. Much like Helium, we were trying to build a new kind of network, but for transportation IoT instead of cellular. It was an immensely fun challenge to get a community so excited and committed that they would be willing to drop money on a hardware device to join the movement.

Finally, my last role was just shy of a year at a DePIN adjacent energy company, Daylight. Our mission was to create a massive distributed network of solar-equipped homes, allowing them to coordinate, share energy, and sell excess electricity back to the grid. During my time, we executed nonstop, including a full rebrand and website overhaul, redesign of our mobile app and reward system, launch of our DeFi electricity yield platform “DayFi”, and management of a full social & content calendar.

I have always found crypto a rewarding place to explore curiously and evolve myself professionally, and never get tired of tinkering with the latest experiments. From cryptopunks putting NFTs on the map in 2017, to Cryptokitty mania in 2018, claiming my first ENS name, and more recent shenanigans like Crypto The Game combining web3 & Survivor, prediction markets reigniting the crypto <> casino debate, and the rise & fall of onchain social (R.I.P. Farcaster 🙏). Seeing how far the crypto industry has come since I first took the red pill from Joe Lubin will forever astound me.

When I'm not trolling on CryptoTwitter, you can find me bouldering at the climbing gym, playing Ultimate Frisbee, fishing for the daily catch, snowboarding upstate, and other adventures.

Music and songwriting are also huge passions of mine, and I play bass in a shitty garage band in Brooklyn that tortures patrons in dive bars all over the city.

Thanks for stopping by! I currently live in Bushwick, Brooklyn with my girlfriend Emma and my cat Millie.