I actually started with an English degree from Pathein University— I grew up in Myanmar where my first love was language, and for years I thought I'd spend my life parsing sentences, not stack frames.
Then I completely fell in love with tech. Somewhere between rereading literature and discovering my first terminal, the line between human grammar and machine grammar blurred. Code felt like another dialect — the most precise one humans have ever invented — so I taught myself to write it. I'm now studying Computer Science at the University of the People while shipping in parallel.
Today I build blockchain infrastructure, AI applications, and prompt-engineered systems in Python and Rust. I love talking about the Solana ecosystem, high-performance systems, and new ways to build cool things. Right now I'm hunting Superteam bounties and shipping for hackathons in the Colosseum Frontier ecosystem — most recently across the Cloak, Encrypt × Ika, and MagicBlock privacy tracks.
I came into engineering through a side door. My first career was in digital marketing— the Google and Meta certificates in my credentials are from that life. The deeper I went, the more I wanted to be the person building the systems instead of promoting them. That's what pulled me into Web3 and back into a CS degree.
The arc I'm optimizing for: independence first. I want to walk a founder / freelance path, work as a blockchain & security researcher, and eventually pursue a fully funded PhD in Computer Science. The end goal is to help build the cryptographic infrastructure for an internet where autonomous agents transact privately and provably. Coming from a country where most opportunities are gated by geography, I treat every line of code as an act of leverage.
Outside of code: I walk a lot, listen to music, live quietly on my own, read research, think too much, and play games when I let myself.