18 y/o. Spent the past few years across community, product, design, and engineering roles. Currently CEO @ Mainstream + studying design & engineering @ USC Iovine and Young Academy.
Projects
We raised $1.1m from world-class investors to reimagine the way people interact with decentralized governance.
Interested in working for us? Reach out at team@mainstream.so.
A crypto-native application that allows folks to seamlessly make donations of their crypto directly to U.S. charities.
Worked with Google's moonshot factory to build a novel Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) solution aiding paralyzed patients with rehabilitation.
Work Experience
A modular, end-to-end decentralized governance platform.
Raised $1.1m+, backed by Lemniscap, Samsung NEXT, Larry Sukernik (Reverie), Linda Xie (Scalar Capital), Daryl Xu (Coinbase), & more.
Crypto-to-charity donation escrow service.
Left after a few months to start Mainstream Labs.
Left high school & moved to San Francisco to build the first-ever iOS-native Ethereum wallet. Product showcased at ETHDenver 2022.
Built a novel Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) solution, Kinisi, to aid paralyzed patients with rehabilitation.
Delivered research & suggestions to increase female Syrian refugees’ participation in the Jordanian digital economy.
Built a machine learning-powered water quality sensing solution impacting 27k+ residents in Flint, MI and 12k+ residents in Newark, NY.
Side Projects
A 66-person internet prank to create New York's Best (Fake) Steakhouse. Featured on the New York Times, New York Post, The Guardian, abc7NY, and more.
Started a $500k internet experiment to alleviate financial barriers for thousands of students to attend blockchain conferences. Supported by Vitalik Buterin, Ameen Soleimani, and 3,000+ others.
The world's first decentralized toy drive. Raised $50k from internet anons to deliver gifts to underserved children around the world.
The world's longest hackathon on land, on a train across America, alongside people like Tom Preston-Werner (founder of GitHub).
Volunteering
I helped lead a community of 10k+ students at the Harvard Innovation Lab, hosting panels for educational discussions and public policy writing to initiating startup incubators and data science research projects related to the coronavirus.
I led the Coronavirus Visualization Team’s Design team, where we coordinated 350k+ articles of PPEs donated during the pandemic.
I also worked on a series of policy-writing events called Policy for the People at the Harvard Institute of Politics. We hosted 3,000+ participants, published 700+ policy brief submissions, and more.
Volunteered for various causes, including: Social Diversity for Children, Prosper Vancouver, Canadian High School Model United Nations, Telegram Foundation, & more.
Education
Sophomore at the Iovine and Young Academy (founded by Dr. Dre, <40 students/year) on Merit Scholarship.
I research AI (In Vivo Group), design (under Prof. Yihyun Lim), and crypto (Blockchain@SC). I started sundays@usc (a 200+ student collective to work on side projects every Sunday), and contribute to various student startup communities on campus.