Code that earns while you sleep.

I got my first computer at four and spent my teens gaming. Gaming turned into writing RuneScape bots. My first real program was a market-making bot. It bought runes cheap from the rune shop and sold them higher on the Grand Exchange. A cost tracker guaranteed the spread.

The trade was an arbitrage on impatient players. It was my first taste of markets, and of code that earns while you sleep.

In a college internship, the team handed me a 2001-era PHP app and told me to break in. I had a SQL injection working on day two. The lead engineer looked at me and said, “Okay, now fix it.”

That reframed everything. Breaking software is easy. Building it and securing it is the hard, interesting part. That is when I knew what I wanted to do with my life.

The original author of that software recruited me to his startup, AirAllow. There I got my first zero to one: a blank file turned into an IoT product that is on the market today. That hooked me.

I went on to co-found Afito, a Zillow for college students. It grew past a million users before we wound it down. The product worked. The business model did not. It was also my first work with real estate data.

After Afito, I went deep on backend engineering: billions of rows of data, SQL, AWS, and serverless. I learned a lot, but I missed the passion.

In 2020 I rediscovered crypto through Uniswap and studied DeFi from the ground up: AMMs, lending, oracles, flash loans.

When a recruiter sent me Parcl’s pitch deck, everything clicked. Real estate data, DeFi, and markets in one product. I told him it was a perfect match. Parcl hired me that week.

Since 2021 I have been a founding engineer at Parcl, where we build onchain real estate markets on Solana. Parcl hired me to build the frontend. I built the apps and parts of the backend for v1 through v3, and later took ownership of the v3 smart contract.

We shipped v1 and learned. We shipped v2 into the teeth of the FTX collapse and learned harder. Then we shipped v3, which has done more than $5B in trading volume. Now we build v4, a fully onchain order book exchange on our own chain, built from scratch.

I work across the whole stack for v4: smart contracts, backend, infrastructure.

Building through the bear market taught me one thing. The bear is the highest-leverage time to build. It is quiet, and competition is low. Every line of code you write can return 100x when the cycle turns.