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Life Before Ethereum
2008–2015 · Music & Service
- 2008 — Graduated high school, Denver Christian
- 2009 — Three semesters at Azusa Pacific University, studying music
- 2010 — Youth With a Mission (YWAM), 6-month program in South Africa
- 2012 — Technical Associates Degree in Guitar, Musicians Institute, Hollywood CA
- 2013–2015 — Kitchen Manager at Cafe 180, nonprofit serving free meals for volunteers
2015–2020 · On the Road
- On-the-ground rep for Love Light + Melody, founded by Brad Corrigan of Dispatch
- Two major US summer tours as intern — production assistant, drum tech & LLM representative. Venues include Madison Square Garden, Red Rocks, and many more across the USA
- Co-founded Orquestra Amor Luz y Melodia, a youth orchestra in Managua, Nicaragua — performed 6 times on local news channels
2018–2021 · The Awakening
- 2018 — First introduction to Bitcoin in a 1-on-1 backyard conversation with Wences Casares
- 2020 — Began intensive blockchain research during lockdown
- 2021 — Fantom Developer Conference, Abu Dhabi — recorded a music video in the Emirates Palace basement and minted some of the first mp4 NFTs ever created (before Bored Apes). Told he "looks like an Ethereum person" — applied to volunteer at ETHGlobal Amsterdam, April 2022
Life in Ethereum · 2022
- ETHGlobal Amsterdam — volunteer + gifted music for community
- Devconnect closing ceremony — performed with Justin Holmes
- ETH Prague — volunteer + gifted music · started the Open Source Orchestra tradition
- ETHGlobal NYC & Mexico City — volunteer + gifted music
- ETH Barcelona closing ceremony — performed with Justin Holmes
- ETH Berlin — first livestream NFT, created by Pablo of StreamETH with a music jam
- Devcon 6 Scholar — first OSO DIP activated the Music Stage at Devcon 6 Bogotá (video)
- ETHGlobal Bogotá & San Francisco — volunteer + gifted music
2023
- Devfolio ETH For All submission with the Broadcastr team (project)
- ETH Denver — week-long side event gifting music with Broadcastr
- ETHGlobal Waterloo, Paris & NYC — volunteer + gifted music
- Burning Man with Griff Green & Camp Decentral — build and strike team; Blockhaus Art Cart music coordinator
- ZuConnect scholarship — first Zuzalu-inspired experience; wrote a Zuzalu Song with the community
- Hacked in ETH Online (MyJam)
- ETHGlobal Istanbul — volunteer + gifted music; wrote an ETHGlobal Song
- Devconnect Istanbul — Open Source Orchestra gifted music two days in the main lobby
- ETH India — volunteer + gifted music; wrote a Devfolio Song with Denver
- Founders hacker house resident, sponsored by Reclaim Protocol — wrote 3 songs with Push, OKX & Waku
2024
- Vitalia popup city, Próspera, Honduras — A/V tech lead + gifted music
- ETH Denver Pragma — volunteer
- ETHGlobal London — volunteer + gifted music; wrote a Nethermind song with Tomasz
- ZuBerlin — co A/V lead + gifted music
- ETHGlobal Brussels + gifted music
- ZuKastle — contributor
- ETH CC closing party — gifted with the Open Source Orchestra
- Zu Georgia — production lead + gifted music
- Burning Man — Blockhaus Art Cart music coordinator
- ETHGlobal Singapore — volunteer + gifted music; first performance at the ArtScience Museum
- Shan Hai Woo, Chiang Mai — Head of Production + gifted music to the whole Zu popup archipelago
- 2nd edition Devcon Music Stage, hosted by the Open Source Orchestra
- Hacked + gifted music at ETHGlobal Bangkok (Ethereum Dispatch)
- ZuThailand scholarship — gifted music + stage design
2025
- Zugrama — Head of Production + gifted music (India's first popup village)
- ETH Denver — gifted music; opening ceremony performance with Jonathan Mann & Justin Holmes
- ZuAfrique — gifted music to community
- Zuitzerland — Head of A/V & stage design
- ETH Prague — gifted music workshops
- ETHGlobal Prague — volunteer + gifted music
- Zu Berlin — co-production lead (receipt)
- Gifted music & streaming to d/acc day Berlin (receipt)
- ETH CC — lunch breaks, sponsor dinner & closing party music gifted to the community
- ETHGlobal Cannes — volunteer + gifted music
- Iceland IERR Retreat with Protocol Labs
- Burning Man — build & strike team with Griff Green & Camp Decentral
- ZuKas — contributor; gifted music + livestream
- Hacked + gifted music at ETHGlobal Delhi — won Most Creative Use of ENS (Open Source Orchestra) — the birth of OSO P.I.T. ("Play IT Together"), ancestor of the P.I.T. universe
- Gifted music & streaming to d/acc day Singapore at the ArtScience Museum (receipt)
- Edge City Patagonia — A/V lead
- Hacked in ETH Online (Tokeofapp)
- Hosted the Music Stage at Devconnect World Fair
- ETH Chiang Mai — A/V lead + gifted music
2026 · In Motion
- ETHChiang Mai Hackathon & Summit — lead production tech, broadcast & gifted music (video 1 · video 2)
- Hacked in ETH Chiang Mai (Vince) and Hackmoney 2026 (AIen)
- Helping build Zuzalu Studio while living in the Zuzalu Library at 4 Seas, Chiang Mai
- Main hall steward, Edge Esmeralda — built The Esmeralda P.I.T. (esmeraldapit.com), the village's knowledge transponder: 149 sessions · 122 hours · 138 synced transcripts — Public Information Transmission, born as "edgeTV," renamed for the orchestra pit + the Delhi ancestor
- OSO performed at ETH Mumbai, ETH CC & ETH Prague
- Next stops: Burning Man → ETHGlobal Tokyo → Devcon 8 Mumbai (Music Space committee; bringing the Open Source Orchestra to India) → back to Chiang Mai to end the year at 4 Seas