Amp Grant Program
Ran end-to-end — content, event, dev tooling, and ecosystem grants, from sourcing to payout. Helped grow creators including @fluffyonchain, @NeverGoon, and @cryptosmiff.
I build things, measure them, and stay close to the communities that use them.

I've spent the last few years living inside the Flexa and Amp payments ecosystems. Running the community and its social channels across X, Reddit, Discord, and Telegram, operating the Amp Grant Program end-to-end, building the Dune dashboards the community relies on, leading integrations on tools like DefiLlama, Zapper, and DeBank, and producing original community events through Digital Spenders Club.
Before that, eight years leading ERP and application development at Tireco — one of the largest private tire distributors in North America. I joined when the company operated a single warehouse in Southern California. We automated the business end to end, building the data infrastructure and integrations that allowed them to scale into a nationwide network.
I care about building things that are useful and honest: a dashboard that gives a community real numbers, a grant program that funds creators doing real work, a site like spenders.xyz that documents real crypto payments instead of just claiming they exist.
Ran end-to-end — content, event, dev tooling, and ecosystem grants, from sourcing to payout. Helped grow creators including @fluffyonchain, @NeverGoon, and @cryptosmiff.
Solana Summer House (1,500+ attendees over 3 days), ApresETH at ETHDenver (400+), and a Bitcoin Pizza Day party in LA (200+). Plus multiple booths across the conference circuit — Best Booth at Consensus 2025.
Rehired to continue Amp ecosystem operations (grants, community, socials) while building the wallet-partner pipeline for the Flexa SDK.
A nonprofit that develops and invests in web3 startups; steward of the Amp ecosystem during my tenure.
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If you're building something where community, data, and developer advocacy all have to be done by one person — and done well — I'd like to hear about it.