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I'm a Software Developer based in the UK who learns fast, builds fast and ships fast. My approach is simple: get a working product live quickly, then refine and expand accordingly. I'm deeply focused on momentum, clean execution, and delivering value.

I Will tell my story in Crypto unfiltered so far for transparency I guess!
I first got into Crypto in early 2021, didn't really understand what was going on or what it was, like many others, but I wanted to make money! And i did, at first... bought Solana early made a nice profit and then subsequently lost my gains on NFTs in 2022. didn't really touch crypto again until I met a close friend when we both started a sales job together - he pointed me back towards the Solana Ecosystem and I invested heavily into $Popcat in early March 2024, this buy turned out very successfully in retrospect, but it was my entry back into specifically Solana and the world of memecoins lol.

at the end of March I'd hit a very healthy return and bought 2 coins ($HAMI & $harold) and my initial investment into Solana had been X20+. I subsequently quit this sales job and then spent the next 12+ months learning the Solana space inside out - made connections with some of the people who were behind the token launches, saw the darkside and brightside of crypto, but was mainly impressed at the underlying software that this whole system was being run and built upon - this is when I started teaching myself to code as I felt I wanted to contribute to the space. I felt I was making rapid progress and as many programmers do (as i've come to learn) I overestimated my ability massively. within 2-3 months of learning I had convinced myself I could leverage AI (ChatGPT) to build a Sandwich MEV bot (this was around September 2024) I relatively quickly found out I did not have the ability to complete this as a first project, but I do believe this did speed up my rate of learning as well as showing me that AI was an extremely viable way to speed up development and learning curves. Fast-forward: I Built a live Solana trading bot (Flash-SOL) in 2 months with AI, featuring Jupiter/Helius integrations and 61/61 tests deployed on Fly.io. Other MVPs: IntuAIive (AI summarizer with Ollama/AssemblyAI) and Abyss Global (Next.js UI site).

I am extremely passionate about programming, developing my skillset and can see the potential that Crypto and Blockchain has to offer from a development and software perspective and i'm extremely eager to make my mark in the space.