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I win

2026-02-10

This is the running list.

2015

  • Joined Science Olympiad (SciOly)
  • Became my travel soccer team's captain

2016

  • Won 4th in the U.S. at "Elastic Launched Glider" where I built a wooden glider that had the longest air time
  • Joined a robotics team and learned about robotics

2017

  • Became JHS Science Olympiad Team Captain
  • Won 2nd in the U.S. at "Food Science" where we took a test and did a lab on the physics of dairy and cheese
  • Led team to a 10th place finish in the U.S.

2018

  • Decided to stop pursuing soccer and instead began to pursue drums more seriously
  • Made it into the pre-college jazz ensemble for Stony Brook University as one of two drummers
  • Made it to the World Championship in St. Louis with our robotics team

2019

  • Become SciOly Team Captain for our high school team
  • Led our team to the National Tournament after not making it the previous year
  • Won 5th in the U.S. at "Sounds of Music" where I built an instrument and took a test on the physics of music
  • Could briefly do a back handspring

2020

  • Made it into a wind ensemble in college as one of 7 percussionists
  • Made it onto a dance team
  • Built my first web app
  • Made it into an accelerator
  • Made my first "internet money"

2021

  • Launched a consumer edtech product which had 20,000 users across 3 schools
  • Grew a beard
  • One of two choreographers for a dance team
  • Worked my first software job!
  • Help start a club called V1

2022

  • Led the team at V1 to create the largest startup career fair in the nation
  • Learned to snowboard
  • Launched a newsletter feedback software and got our first paying user
  • Backpacked up a mountain in the Himalayas (12500+ feet)
  • Did a silent meditation retreat in India called Vipassana
  • Worked at Relay.app and Warp.dev
  • Graduated summa cum laude (3 years)

2023

  • Began working at Lumos
  • Got promoted within 6 months
  • Snowboarded in Switzerland

2024

  • Became the youngest Senior Software Engineer at Lumos
  • Hosted many events in NYC (both personal and Neo related)
  • Focused on becoming the best engineer I could

2025

  • Led larger projects at Lumos
  • Left my job + moved home
  • Drove 200k+ impressions to projects we built after I left

2026

  • TBD :)