Brief Bio:
  • Active Duty Marine Infantry Officer until 2.5 years ago when I finished up active time and went back to school to learn to code so I could work on Bitcoin
  • Taught a bunch of bitcoin education courses, most recently at Base58 with @niftynei as her TA
  • Been contributing to open source bitcoin and lightning projects for about 2 years now, most extensively in Fedimint
  • Worked at OKCoin and OKX for a couple months as a backend developer on the fiat and "web3" teams, quit to work exclusively on Bitcoin again like I had when just doing open source
  • Started working at Fedi a couple months ago
  • Currently running the AI4ALL Hackathon, a remote hackathon running the month of July on using Bitcoin to scale and improve the privacy of generative AI applications https://bolt.fun/tournaments/ai4all/overview