I have been interested in computers and numbers for as long as I can remember. At 10, I started competing in Math Olympiads in Argentina, where I won MateClubes, the national championship, twice. At 12, I started building PCs for me and my friends in Argentina. I liked finding the right configuration and putting together components to have something working. I've been hooked ever since.
At 14, I transitioned to Software. I learned Python via online courses and YouTube. When I turned 16, I started building websites using React and Python for people on Upwork. A year later, I got a job as a full-stack engineer at CodingDojo, a coding bootcamp. There I had my first exposure to real systems and to delivering software to users.
I took an interest in Cryptocurrency because of the mind-blowing math and cryptography behind it. While in the last year of school, I built Adapix, an NFT marketplace powered by Smart Contracts. People from all over the world were using it, and we were processing real volumes of transactions. After 6 months, NMKR reached out to acquire the company.
Then I joined jpg.store as CTO, where we grew the company from a small marketplace to a trading platform that processed over $600M in transaction volume. I learned how to raise a seed round (we did $6M @ $60M valuation), and built a large-scale consumer system from the ground up. I was lucky to collaborate with cryptography researchers, do architectural migrations, and design distributed and mission-critical systems. I also hired and led a 13-person engineering team for over 3 years.
After the crypto fallout, NFT trading declined, so I decided to transition to the AI industry by joining kapa.ai. Here I learned all about AI systems, including inference serving, complex DAG-based ETL pipelines and evaluation systems. I get to collaborate with researchers on a daily basis.
I believe we're at an inflection point in the AI revolution, and like a sharp knife, it should be handled with care. The same capabilities that make these systems useful also make them dangerous if we get them wrong. That said, I like to exercise rational optimism. I think these advancements will hugely benefit society, and I'm hopeful for a responsible, productive future, which I have the privilege of building.