Storm Watch: The History and Future of Thunderhead
Talk at InfraCon, Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
CV
Education
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Class of 2027
- Currently planning to major in Computation and Cognition. Aiming to build digital systems to solve for human idiosyncrasies. Also interested in Math, Physics, Economics, Management and Design.
- High School. Class of 2023
- Coursework includes Partial Differential Equations, Multivariable Calculus, Linear Algebra, Differential Equations, AP Physics, Engineering track.
- Wrestling
- Team Captain
- Top placements include 3rd at Prep State and Top 16 at Prep Nationals
Work experience
- Founder/CEO of Thunderhead (April 2021 - Present)
- Ecosystem as a Service. We build staking infrastructure and public goods in nascent blockchain ecosystems.
- Thunderhead OTC (April 2021 - February ‘22)
- Created over-the-counter exchange for the trading of Pocket Network tokens
- Facilitated $50m in volume
- 3000+ users from 70+ countries
- Thunderstake (September 2021 - Present)
- Built out fully automated infrastructure monitoring and deployment system of validators
- Several institutional clients (1kx, Arrington Capital, Decentral Park Capital, + 5)
- Peaked at $70m assets under management
- ThunderPOKT (February 2022 - June 2023)
- Innovative token backed 1:1 by staked POKT that earns protocol rewards
- 1300 users
- Lean Pocket (March 2022 - December 2022)
- Ideated way to reduce Pocket Network infrastructure costs by order of magnitude by consolidating full nodes
- Partnered with another community member to develop a solution
- Saved the network $3-5m a month in infrastructure costs
- Public Goods
- Hyperliquid Stats
- Dashboard to display Hyperliquid network analytics like volume and users
- PoktInfo
- Comprehensive analytics solution for Pocket node runners to correlate location, latency, errors, and relays to their rewards.
- Pokt.Watch
- Block explorer for the Pocket Network
- RPCmeter
- Tool to compare the latency of various RPCs across chains and regions
- Hyperliquid Stats
- ML Development and Research (January 2019 - February 2021)
- Built an evolution simulator from scratch using NEAT (Neuro-evolution of Augmented Topologies)
- Implemented Q-learning to beat me in tic-tac-toe
- Took Andrew Ng’s EdX Course
- Laundry Market for Travellers (May 2018 - August 2018)
- Attended Instacart interviews to optimize hiring process
- Worked with contractors to build out a mobile app
- Ultimately did not work out due to my limited resources at the time
- Clothing Reseller (September 2016 - February 2019)
- Purchased sought-after clothing to resell on secondary markets
- Rubiks Cubing (August 2015 - May 2016)
- Created and sold guides/lessons on solving Rubiks puzzles to classmates
- Reviewed puzzles on YouTube
- Betta Fish Breeding (September 2013 - January 2014)
- Tried to breed pretty Betta fish to sell
- Seemed like a solid business model since Betta produce thousands of babies
- Unfortunately the Betta fought and killed each other
- Minecraft Server and YouTube Channel (January 2013 - June 2014)
- Hosted Minecraft server and crashed home internet due to peak attendance of 50 players worldwide
- Created “Lets Play” videos
- Experimented with plugin development
- Book Renting (January 2012 - February 2012)
- Rented popular books that the library did not have to peers.
- Ended due to improper accounting for the fat-tail risk of clients losing books.
Other Accomplishments
- Placed 2nd in the M3 Challenge, an international math modelling competition
- Saved $6m of user funds in the Curve Finance protocol through two white-hats
Talks
How I’ve learned to storify my life
Talk at St. John's School, Houston, Texas