Ambitious Labs

Building the #1 app idea accelerator in the world.

- Raised mid 6-figure angel round
- 7-figure annual revenue 
- Built a high performing enrollments department 
- 4.9 star google reviews
- Developed cutting edge ai powered learning platform

Founder + CEO

Closercademy

CEO, Founder

University of California, Berkeley

Guest lecturer for the Product Launch class under the Sutardja center for entrepreneurship & technology.

Teaching full-stack no-code AI development to business students interested in launching app startups.

Guest Lecturer

FlutterFlow

Championing the FlutterFlow product for the USA market.

Content Creator & Ambassador

First Check Ventures

- Syndicate member of First Check Ventures. I write $2k-$5k checks to a handful of promising companies every year. 

- Invested in Everything Green Organics, a farm to table startup out of Windsor, California.

Angel Investor

Yummy 

Venezuela’s super app. Doordash + Uber. Invested very early alongside FCV syndicate.

Angel Investor via First Check Ventures

PrizePicks

- #1 App for Sports in the iOS App Store
- #1 Daily Fantasy Sports App in the Country 2022
- Senior Mobile Engineer owning CI/CD, release management and user acquisition engineering

Head of Mobile & Growth Engineering

- Lead product engineering of top a 10 Sports App in iOS App Store
- Day to day: React, CapacitorJS, Swift/Java, Growth Marketing, App Analytics, AdTech, Product Marketing, Re-engagement
- Achieved industry leading engagement rates by developing new features against KPI goals. (CAC, virality co-efficient, etc) 
- Built a world class marketing tech stack in close collaboration with Marketing and Data Science.

Head Mobile Engineer

Season Share

Co founded and led product and engineering. Worked closely with VPs at major league teams to earn buy in for our products. Responsible for deploying 50+ products in market generating 10s of millions of dollars of revenue for our partners. Architected a distributed system capable of supporting 500k MAUs & high traffic on-sale windows.

Co-founder + CTO 

Hourglass Education Technology Solutions, LLC

Worked on cutting edge institutional education software. Mentored on ReactJS best practices. Individual contributor in a disciplined agile/scrum environment.

Senior Mobile App Engineer (React Native) 

San Jose State University

Instructional Assistant 

Grew up in a small town and had to work extra hard to get my foot in the door working on cool tech startups. My first job at age 15 was fixing iPhone screens in the mall. Then I scooped ice cream at Cold Stone Creamery and bussed tables at a local airport restaurant to pay for college. 

After football practice in high school I'd be learning how to code on CodeAcademy. People thought I was a nerd. 

Fast forward 10 years -- I've built multiple apps, b2b SaaS, internet businesses, websites, and e-commerce businesses that have generated over $100m collectively. 

I got to work remotely, travel to 12+ countries, invest in real estate and stocks and built a fruitful living for myself. 

Learning how to build apps changed my life. Now I’m on a mission to teach 10,000 people how to build apps.

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