Amp Grant Program
28 grants — 17 content grants (each committing to multiple deliverables), 5 event, 3 dev tooling, 2 ecosystem. 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 ecosystems — running the social channels (115K+ members across X, Reddit, Discord, and Telegram), distributing roughly $300K through the Amp Grant Program across 28 grants, building Dune dashboards the community relies on, leading integrations on tools like DefiLlama, Zapper, and DeBank, attending 30+ conferences with multiple booths across the circuit, and producing events from Solana Summer House to ApresETH at ETHDenver.
Before that, eight years leading ERP and application development at Tireco. I joined when the company ran one warehouse in Southern California; by the time I left they were running 30+ nationwide, with the data infrastructure and three ecommerce sites and three mobile apps I helped ship powering most of it.
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.
28 grants — 17 content grants (each committing to multiple deliverables), 5 event, 3 dev tooling, 2 ecosystem. 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.
Run @ampdotxyz day-to-day. Operate the Amp Grant Program end-to-end, including a creator program funding spending content and ecosystem coverage. Drive wallet integrations — created an RFP distributed to prospective wallet partners as an incentive and onboarding tool. Represent Flexa at industry conferences. Serve as the connection point between community feedback and the Flexa team.
Built and ran what the Amp / Anvil / Digital Spenders Club ecosystem leaned on. Led integrations on DefiLlama, Zapper, and DeBank — getting the protocols listed and tracked where the broader DeFi community looks. Distributed roughly $300K across 28 grants — 17 content grants (each committing to multiple deliverables), 5 event, 3 dev tooling, 2 ecosystem — helping grow creators including @fluffyonchain, @NeverGoon, and @cryptosmiff. Owned and grew @ampdotxyz and the broader Amp community to 115K+ across X, Reddit, Discord, and Telegram — overseeing dozens of moderators and admins across all channels. Produced Solana Summer House (1,500+ over 3 days), ApresETH at ETHDenver (400+), and a Bitcoin Pizza Day party in LA (200+). Attended 30+ conferences with multiple booths across the circuit — Best Booth at Consensus 2025.
Built the first Amp analytics dashboard on Dune — the ecosystem's first real window into live network health data. Open-sourced analytics utilities the community picked up and ran with. Worked directly with developers on Flexa and Amp integrations, collected feedback, and brought it back to the team.
Led a team of 5 engineers — backend and frontend — owning the NetSuite ERP platform for one of the largest private tire distributors in North America. Joined when the company ran a single warehouse in Southern California; by the time I left, they were running 30+ nationwide. Deployed 3 ecommerce sites and launched 3 mobile applications, all fully automated into NetSuite. Built extensive NetSuite customizations across every department, improving productivity and eliminating manual processes at scale. Built and maintained the reporting infrastructure executives and finance teams relied on: KPIs, dashboards, saved searches, and operational reports. REST/ODBC pipelines moving millions of records reliably between systems.
Built custom analytics, reporting, and financial dashboards that supported decision-making. Built and maintained data integrations between NetSuite and external systems via web services and ODBC. Automated workflows and business logic that reduced manual work and kept data consistent across the platform.
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.