Very few people know the real me. Most are familiar with a small subset of my skillset. For work and places like LinkedIn, I usually talk about Software Engineering and my software companies.

What most people don’t know is that I have also spent many years in various fields. Building up my skillset in silence. Some of those skills are:

  • Finance: I’ve traded everything you could imagine. Forex, crypto, futures, futures-options, futures-crypto, commodities, stocks, bonds, options, and more. I’ve also developed algorithmic trading systems, expert advisors, and more.
  • Social skills: Public speaking, psychology, social media influencing, and the psychology behind what works and what doesn’t, and more.
  • Theoretical astrophysics: specifically, the origin of the universe, from beginning to end
  • Mathematics, mainly for use in other fields like CS and Finance. I write my own functions for use in my trading strategies.
  • Writing: I’ve written nearly 700K words this past year, and all of it is private. From my own market psychology framework, business SOPs, insights, lessons, and more.
  • Music: I’ve written songs, produced tracks, enjoy DJing, mixing and mastering, and publish music to popular platforms.
  • Videography: My father specialized in video production and has taught me a great deal about this. I’ve published a few viral videos on YouTube and have a list of videos spanning back to 2007. I even made videos teaching others how to solve a Rubik’s Cube when I was 10 years old.
  • Other interests include: Culinary Arts, Engineering (Civil, Electronics, Mechanical), Propulsion/Rockets/Theoretical Propulsion and engine designs, Cryptography, Art (drawing, sketching), 3D design (CAD, Models/Animation), and so much more. I’ve spent the vast majority of my life consuming as much knowledge as possible from everything I could get my hands on.

In the near future, I aspire to obtain my pilot’s license, work in real estate, establish my own brokerage, and pursue additional opportunities. If you know me, I don’t stop. I speed up, keep moving, and do whatever it takes, for as long as it takes, to achieve my goals. I lost money for 5 years before having my “aha” moment in finance, worked for free for 4 years on startups that later failed, failed hundreds of projects, and so much more. The knowledge I learned by doing that was priceless.

There’s always more to learn. I’m sure I’ll make plenty more mistakes, fail more projects, and fall flat on my face for many years to come. However, I’ll continue to learn as much as possible from every single instance and keep moving forward. In fact, part of my learning system (that I’ve developed over the years) is to actively try to make mistakes as fast as possible to increase learning speed and efficiency.

I told people it was a mistake to bet against me when I was 18, and they laughed. Don’t bet against me; you’ll lose every single time. I love it when people underestimate me. What most don’t understand is that when I say something, it’s very likely that I’ve been thinking about it for at least a week. Sometimes, there are years of effort (as I see this next bubble and Dotcom 2.0 coming soon). Understandably, it comes as a surprise to them, but to clients, and others in my inner circle, you know what goes on behind the scenes.

I keep most of my life compartmentalized and hidden from the world. I learned quickly growing up just how different I was. I started programming at the age of 8 in C++, and I am self-taught in almost everything I know to this day. I’ve invented my own mental frameworks, memorization techniques, information processing (visual-spatial, technical, social, meta-cognitive, psychological), and so much more. The traditional advice always did the opposite for me, and I’ve forged my own path with no handouts. Nobody in my entire family (relatives, distant cousins, etc.) was in tech, and I had to build everything from the ground up. I’m definitely the black sheep of my family. For Christmas when I was 7, I asked for a book on chemistry, physics, and mathematics. As a sophomore in high school (I was 15), Google flew my family and me down to their campus in San Jose for a private tour. I have no traditional education; I earned my GED in four days after attending almost no school, and I co-founded my first software company soon after.

I’m driven by an intense internal curiosity. My drive is relentless and is accompanied by an extreme obsession. I strive to be the best, make myself and others lots of money, and share my knowledge with the world. I only have one life on this small world in a vast cosmos, and I intend to live it to the fullest.

To some, I may seem like a rulebreaker, among many other negative labels I’ve been given throughout my life. This is a common misconception. If something can be done better, I do it better. Sometimes, this can be perceived as perfectionistic or a departure from norms. It’s always for the greater good. I’m very conscious of how I spend my time. Every single hour is utilized to the maximum. I don’t take time off, and I love what I do. This can seem very intense to people I’ve worked with.

I have what’s called 2E (Twice Exceptional). I’m Gifted and have ADHD. I don’t discuss this, as I dislike the term “gifted” and especially how most people view it. It’s been more of a curse for me than a gift. The way my mind processes the world is MUCH different. It’s not like the movies…

I got into a car crash in July of 2024, and that moment forever changed my life trajectory. I’d been coasting through life, trying to please others, had no confidence, always downplayed my skillset, and so much more. In fact, when I had done tests like the Triplebyte test at 18 years old, I scored in the top few percentiles. Even when interviewing for FAANG, I usually don’t study, as it looks better to the interviewer when I make mistakes. Otherwise, I finish early, and I get this look and I know I’m not moving forward. In fact, to fly under the radar, I had to slow down my work output by around 10X artificially. It was tiring, which is why I took the leap. After doing an interview for Meta for Senior Production Engineering (Meta’s SRE), and also SWE, I finished one of the interviews in less than 15 minutes of the allotted 45, and after the interviewer and I chatted for another 15 minutes, it ended 15 minutes early. I realized that the speed at which my brain works is something that is perceived as a know-it-all type of behavior, but the people in my life know that I don’t say something unless I’m incredibly confident in what I’m saying. This leads to an interesting dilemma.

Having my life flash before my eyes showed me that I needed to rip back control of my life and to go all in on myself. This has always been my path, but I needed life to literally hit me over the head. Having a TBI after the crash and losing my abilities for a short time put things into perspective. I want to give back to the world, solve massive problems, and do the impossible. Something is only impossible if you think it is. Most people laughed at me when I said I’d work for FAANG with no traditional education. I did exactly what I’d promised at 22 years old. Then, I left to do this. I never joined for the money, and the worst part was that I was bored. Boredom is one of the most complex challenges I’ve faced throughout my life. That’s why I do so much all the time, because to me, it’s still not enough. I could barely juggle three projects a year ago, and now I’m doing 17+, manage multiple businesses (marketing, sales, legal, accounting, etc), training for a half-marathon for the spring of 2026, have lost over 175lbs in the past 12 months without any weight loss drugs (designed my own nutrition strategy), day trade futures (mainly ES/MES), swing trade stocks, and so much more. The issue is, once I do this, I then need more, and more, and MORE stimulation. It’s an ever-rising bar, but it doesn’t add more stress; in fact, it has the opposite effect. It’s more stressful for me to slow down. This is something I couldn’t get from any regular job.

I refuse to write in a grandiloquent way, as I hate the idea of “sounding” smart. My actions and outputs speak louder than my words. Feel free to dismiss everything I say, but my portfolio returns, credentials, and everything else speak for themselves. I especially dislike how “fancy speak” is used as a measure of intelligence. I’d rather be understood by my audience, rather than sound smart.

I will be a billionaire. It’s not a question of if, it’s a question of when. Don’t bet against me.

I may be 27, but I know who I am, where I’m going. Ready or not, here I come!