since first going down the bitcoin rabbithole in early 2013 i have been writing about its development, building blockchain applications, going to hackathons, attending crypto meetups, reading protocol whitepapers and trading cryptocurrencies. i first got into bitcoin by mining. i was mining bitcoins on a raspberry-pi with usb stick asic miners in powered hubs back in college. i started writing about how to configure the miners using stratum proxys and raspberry pi computers. i started writing more articles about bitcoin and this led to me writing for a number of years for crypto biz magazine. right out of school, i spent two years working in enterprise software as a sales engineer at apttus corporation, working closely with customers in the pre-sales process to define solution architecture and build custom demos. i also managed cross-department high visibility projects and drove various product development lifecycles around ai based bots and ar/vr. in the end of 2016, i left to pursue my own business and begin my entrepreneurial journey. i co-founded dapps inc, a software company that builds ethereum solutions on the salesforce platform. in 2019, i co-founded stateset, an autonomous commerce operations platform and response cx, an ai agent for dtc merchants. i drive the daily operations and product development for both companies.