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 (writing and demo), and ecosystem development at the Ethereum Foundation (talk at Devcon4).

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

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