My Journey as a Scientist + Engineer + Storyteller
2026
- π Books I'm Reading (plus Backlog)
- π Interpretability Articles I'm Reading
- π ML && AI && SWE Articles I'm Reading
- π ML && AI && SWE Podcasts I'm Watching
- πΊοΈ Lived in Denver
2025
- π bt3gl's Monogatari η©θͺ
- π DeSci + AI Short Stories
- π 10 Goals for My Next 10 Years
- π On the Future ει²γγγγ¦ι£θΊ
- π 66 Ideas for Fun with the Fam
- π Guidelines for Collaborating with Me
- π Travel with the Fam: The Bucket List
- π Classic Books to Read with Our Kids
- π Classic Movies to Watch with Our Kids
- π Classic Videogames to Play with Our Kids
- π What We'll Teach Our Kids in Their First Years
- πΉοΈ A Playful Halloween Spell Game
- πΉοΈ A 5th-Wall Storytelling Experiment
- πΉοΈ A Different Type of Travel + Love Blog
- πΉοΈ What If Astrology Were Real
- πΉοΈ Pattern Recognition in Astronomy
- πΉοΈ RIP Charlie; You Won't Be Forgotten
- β Collaborated with hellas.ai, as a Principal Blockchain ML Engineer
- β Collaborated with Greenfield Capital, as a Senior Software Engineer
- β Joined the Esoterica Community for an In-Depth Study in Egypt
- β Joined the Network State in Malaysia for 2 months
- πΊοΈ Lived in Germany, Malaysia, Hawaii, Brazil, The Netherlands, and New Orleans
2024
- πΉοΈ An Innermost Experiment on Being Human
- β Founded urani.trade, a decentralized platform for DeFi Agents
- β Won 1st Place at the DeFi Track of the Solana Colosseum Hackathon
- β Turned Down a $3M Investment Offer for Urani, Led by Greenfield Capital
- β Joined ETH Denver and Ethereum DevCon in Thailand
- πΊοΈ Lived in Germany, Malta, Greece, Japan, and Seattle
2023
- π My Favorite Movies && Books
- π My Favorite Directors && Musicians
- πΉοΈ cyph3rs: MEV Agents Marketplace
- β Took the Life-Changing Psilocybin Heroic Dose
- β Learned the Kabbalah and Started Performing Long-Scale Miracles
- β Collaborated with Ethereum Foundation, as a Research Engineer
- β Collaborated with Espresso Foundation, as a Senior Software Engineer
- πΊοΈ Lived in Los Angeles
2022
- πΉοΈ The Game of $CHOICES
- πΉοΈ A Neo-Cypherpunk Coven
- β Collaborated with Immunefi, as a Security Engineer
- β Collaborated with KeeperDAO, as a Senior Software Engineer
- πΊοΈ Lived in Germany, Spain, Dubai, and Traveled Around Europe
2021
- πΉοΈ dreamers.cash LOL
- πΉοΈ Mint a Storyteller Loot NFT
- πΉοΈ Story Protocol: Web3 for Filmmakers
- β Presented at LisCon about MidsummerDAO/FilmmakerDAO
- β Joined the Launch House Mansion in Beverly Hills for 2 Months
- β Co-founded the Blockchain Team at Shopify, as a Senior Software Engineer
- β Collaborated with the NFT Engineering Team at Gemini, as a Senior Software Engineer
- πΊοΈ Lived in Los Angeles and Hawaii
2020
- πΉοΈ curiee: quantum computing from hackers to hackers
- β Joined the Tooling Engineering Team at Shopify, as a Senior Software Engineer
- β Collaborated with Zapata Computing, as a Senior Software Engineer
- πΊοΈ Lived in Los Angeles
2019
- πΉοΈ Droning + Travelling + Art Experiments
- β Collaborated with Surfline, as a Senior Software Engineer
- β Collaborated with Reaction Commerce, as a Senior Software Engineer
- β Collaborated with Quantum Gravity Research, as a Research Engineer
- β Joined Beyond The Boundaries Snowboarders at Woodward Tahoe
- β Dropped in on the Ramp at Tony Hawk's House without a Helmet
- πΊοΈ Lived in Encinitas, Malibu, and Hawaii
2017
- β Joined the Security Team at Etsy, as a Senior Software Engineer
- β Joined the San Francisco Filmmaking School for 2 months
- β Went Skydiving in San Jose on the day I quit my job at Apple
- πΊοΈ Lived in Hawaii, San Francisco, and Manhattan
2015
- β Spoke at DEF CON on "Hacking Quantum Computers"
- β Joined the Security Team at Yelp, as a Software Engineer
- β Joined the CoreOS Team at Apple, as a Senior Software Engineer
- β Joined and Hacked with the CTF teams Hacking for Soju and Snatch the Root
- πΊοΈ Moved to San Francisco and Cupertino
2014
- πΉοΈ chmod +x singularity.sh
- β Concluded a PhD Degree in Physics from Stony Brook University
- β PhD Research at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico
- β Turned down a Postdoctoral Offer at the Los Alamos National Laboratory
- β Paper "Modeling X-Rays Bursting Neutron Stars" (The Astrophysical Journal)
- β Joined the Hacker School (Recursive Center) in New York City for 3 months
- β Published book: "Python, Algorithms, and Data Structures" with Hanbit Media
2013
- πΉοΈ A Grad Student Playing with Her Archaic Robots
- β PhD Research at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York
- β Paper "On Heavy Ion Collisions at the BNL Collider" (Phys. Review C)
2011
- πΉοΈ The Cosmos Is All That Is
- β Earned a Master's Degree in Physics (en route) from Stony Brook University
- β Wrote books: Group Theory, Quantum Field Theory, and Quantum Information
2009
- πΉοΈ My Old Geeky Bookmark
- πΉοΈ My Older Lil Bytegirl's Page
- πΉοΈ Saturn, Strings, Everything Else
- β Joined the CERN Winter School on Particle Physics in Medellin
- β Joined the Simons Workshop in String Theory '09 at Stony Brook University
- β Joined the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center on Summer, as a Graduate Student Researcher from CUA
- β Started PhD in Physics (String Theory) at Stony Brook University with Full Tuition, Teaching, Research Scholarship
- πΊοΈ Lived in Curitiba, Washington DC, and Chile; moved to Long Island
2008
- πΉοΈ That Time I was an Atheist Materialist
- β Earned a Bachelor's Degree in Physics from the University of Sao Paulo
- β Joined the Simons Workshop in String Theory '08 at Stony Brook University
- β Aced both the GRE Physics and the Quantitative section of the General GRE
- β bitcoin.org was Registered on My Birthday and a P2P Electronic Cash Published on Halloween
- πΊοΈ Lived in Sao Paulo
1999
- πΉοΈ My Even Older Lil Bytegirl's Page
- β Programmer Job at Conectiva Linux in Curitiba
- β Watched Pulp Fiction, the Greatest Movie Ever Made
- β 1st Place at the National High School Science Fair (MOSTRATEC), with a project on Expert Systems