About

The journey so far.

I spent most of my childhood and teenage years in the Middle East. First Oman, then later Bahrain, before heading to the US for university. I graduated from UC Berkeley with degrees in Molecular & Cell Biology: Neurobiology, and Psychology. I very much enjoyed learning about how the brain works, from gene regulation at the cellular level to how it shapes our behavior. I later became interested in how individuals shape group behavior and vice versa.

Being in the Bay Area though I couldn't help but be exposed to technology and how quickly it can change the world. Given my degrees and international student status, my options were either to pursue graduate school or join a startup. I chose the latter. And started my career as a technical recruiter at WalkMe, and later Instacart as my first job out of college. There I interviewed and worked with many talented engineers and saw how they worked through problems. In many ways computers are like the brain. 0s and 1s powering rocketships, neurons powering memory and behavior. I interviewed so many iOS and Ruby on Rails engineers that I started learning to code these on the side.

2017–2018 · Early writing & community building

My short time in San Francisco came to an unexpected end in 2017. I moved back to Bangkok. I joined ThoughtWorks as their first operations hire there and built out the team from 4 to about 30 people. Again I got to work with engineers. I also got to host events and build a community. We hosted various tech talks in Bangkok, like this one.

The work wasn't too intellectually demanding. I came home each day with an itch to learn something new and work on something hard. Around the time I left Instacart, Naval Ravikant who angelled in the company came into the office for a fireside chat. Along with the typical building-a-startup topics he also spoke about Bitcoin and programmable money. I didn't know what I was going to do with it but my interest was piqued. So in the summer of 2017 I started digging into every material I could find about how blockchain works and published my first longform piece on the topic.

Naval ended up sharing that article on Twitter. Overall the reception on the first post spun the wheels for more. I went on to write about Ethereum, decentralized exchanges, consensus algorithms, scalability, privacy and so on. Soon I knew that crypto was all I wanted to do.

There weren't many crypto jobs around at the time that I qualified for. I ended up joining a blockchain incubator that was funded by a university in Bangkok. There I worked with professors trying to commercialize their web3-related ideas and ran events including SURGE Bangkok, the Smart Energy Hackathon, RSK Hackathon Bangkok, SHAPE APAC, Climate Financing Workshops, and Watt's Up? Meetups.

During this time I also:

Contributed to open source books: Mastering Ethereum, cryptoeconomics.study, and learnstatechannels
Went to Devcon Osaka as an Ethereum Foundation Scholar
Mentored developers for the Consensys Blockchain Developer bootcamp

2019–2021 · Many hats

In December 2017 a decentralized application called CryptoKitties almost broke the Ethereum blockchain. It was a collectables project where you pay money to own a picture of a cat. We saw the money people were spending and decided to build on the idea but fund wildlife conservation with it. This became Last of Ours. We won the first ever NFT hackathon and got to pitch on Richard Branson's island.

I learned how to write smart contracts and build blockchain applications. We didn't have money to hire a dev so I learned to do it myself. Then the pandemic hit, and I started freelancing as a dev for Mochi and Upstate.

During this time I also became one of the founding members of Meta Gamma Delta DAO, which gave grants to women-led blockchain projects. We ended up giving around $120k in grants and hosted events around the world until 2022.

2021– · Investing

I joined 1kx in 2021, where I continued to write and put on events such as Alliance Summit, ETH Berlin, NFT Berlin, and Macro Hacks. More recently, I have been leading our middleware investments such as Predicate (2024), Rhinestone (2024), and Kulipa (2025). The rest of the story is still being written.