About Me

High-Level Bio

• Discovered Bitcoin in 2013 as an undergrad at Cornell

• (Unsuccessfully) attempted to work at Blockchain.info in 2015

• Joined the CFPB in 2016 for a 2-year analyst program focusing on fintech

• Attended Bitcoin meetups in DC throughout 2017, wanted to work in the space full-time

• Landed a job at ShapeShift in 2018, moved to Colorado sight unseen

• Got accepted to Cornell Tech’s CS MEng program as a self-taught engineer, attended from 2020-2021

• Post grad school, joined Galaxy’s research team in 2021

• Wrote a bunch of stuff, primarily focusing on the applications side of crypto

• Left Galaxy in Spring 2023 to launch Unlayered Podcast and work on a startup of my own