Career Profile

My goals for the past couple years have revolved around learning how to securely transact value across the internet. This includes running nodes and understanding the different tradeoffs that different technologies make. I am mainly interested in open, public, borderless, persmisionless and censorship-resistant systems regardless of their nature.

Experiences

Teaching Assistant

2017 - 2021
Honors Program for Theoretical Computer Science at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam NL

Assisted with grading, labs, explaining concepts and course material for Computer Organization, Web Technologies and Computer Networks.

Community member

2018 - Present
raspiblitz and mynode

Helping others get up and running with raspiblitz node and testing releases.

LN node operator

2018 - Present

Ran a node, routed payments got familiar with the tooling.

  • Built my own node helper software

LNbook contributor

2020 - Present

Mastering Lightning is an upcoming book about the lightning network written as a community effort, still in early draft

  • debugged docker examples and submitted PR’s
  • helped with grammar and mechanics and by pointing out unclear explanations

Customer Support Specialist

July 2021 - September 2021
Distributed Ledger Inc.

Responsible for customer support tickets and making sure our users had their issues resolved or their questions answered in a timely manner.

Director of LatAm Operations

September 2021 - Present
Distributed Ledger Inc.

Responsible for the day-to-day operations and coordinating with marketing about growth on our social media channels.

Team member for MiniSimp project (Won Best Hack Overall)

June 2022
Bitcoin++ Developer Conference

Added a hashlock contract that was evluated by the Simplicity Bit Machine as part of a Fedimint module

Osmium Coldstarter

June 2022
crates.io/crates/osmium-pwm

A web64 capable password manager, hosted on crates.io, that will eventually use pubkey auth to make lightning powered automatic backups.

Learning by doing

These are the books that I have used to self-learn about security and how the technology works at the fundamental level.

Learning Bitcoin from the Command Line - A fantastic series on how to run a bitcoin and lightning node on linux by using Unix as a chainsaw
Programming Bitcoin - My first foray into cryptography, after this book you get to understand what bitcon wallets actually do down to the bit
Mastering Bitcoin - A must read for any technical bitcoiner or anyone that wants to learn the ins and outs
Mastering Lightning - A community made effort to help onboard new lightning devs

Skills & Proficiency

Python

Shell

Java

Rust

Linux

Git

Docker