I grew up in Iran and moved to Canada at age 14. I studied physics in university and did an internship at the Max Planck Institute in Germany. Later, I worked on machine learning infrastructure at Omada Health, engineering at a layer two protocol called Truebit, and ecosystem development at the Ethereum Foundation.

I'm an investor in companies including Across, Etherealize, Flashbots, Neynar, Pantograph, Phantom, Privy, Runner, Socket, Splits, World.

I also meditate and am engaged with Rob Burbea and Suzuki Roshi's lineages.