The longest-running interest I have. Grew up in Virginia close enough to Civil War battlefields that family weekends ended at one, read backwards from there through Napoleon, Caesar, and Alexander, and landed in ancient Greece by middle school

Where the history and the networking hardware meet. Veterans in my community run the Android Team Awareness Kit on group hunts, so I turned a Kindle Fire into a pocket command center running it, after the Army's Next Generation Command and Control effort, and built an AI layer that checks live reports against a verified history and pins its reading onto the map

I trade crypto derivatives most days, on Hyperliquid now, Solana before that. Not professionally

I am a member. I was deep in NFTs during that cycle and still am.

Private messaging, privacy services, and the hardware side of network communications. This started with the certifications and the privacy coins and led into military communications: how a unit shares position and observations when the radio drops half the words

Skiing since I was four. Six years racing slalom and giant slalom for the Wintergreen Ski Team in the Southern Alpine Racing Association league, U16 through U21

Not GT cars specifically, just cars. The ones I actually want are a Ferrari 488 Spider or a 458 Spider

Started with Tree Fredericksburg and Downtown Greens in high school. Planting native trees around the city, picking sites off heat maps to cut urban heat islands, and keeping community gardens that give their produce away

I grew up watching them. My dad grew up in Miami, the city my grandpa set roots in, so the Dolphins came with the family

Four-year varsity starter and captain my senior year at James Monroe.

Picked it up when I got to Berkeley. It turned out to be the best way I have found to sit with people for a few hours and actually talk through ideas.

Taco Bell, mostly. I love it.

Top 500 in Splatoon 2 for a long stretch of high school, mostly during COVID. Held the world record on Coconut Mall in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe for a few minutes when the track came out.

Favorite book: The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho. I read it as a kid and it stuck

First thing I wanted to be. I looked at the stars through telescopes and high-powered binoculars and went to museums every weekend