Wall of Thanks

It took a lot of generosity to be here. I keep track of friends and mentors along the journey so looking back I don't forget. In roughly chronologic order:

• Adam Moshcatel for introducing me to xkcd and writing java code with me every day in 12th grade

• Hélène Martin for teaching me computer science and tolerating me at a young age

• Chris Mills for hiring me as cobalt's first-ever intern and pairing me with wonderful mentors

• Michael Abrash for lending me a new android phone and encouraging me to code in my free time

• Jacob Barnett for waking me up for exams and teaming up for mastermind our android app

• Carl Poulin for competing in code jam in 1st year with Sami Jaber and me

• Alex Bandhari for long nights at new rez studying circuits

• Arielle Domb for furnishing my first apartment

• Jack Johnson for what could have been meander

• Artur Minacov for introducing me to the startup lyfe with modreal

• Marc-Etienne Brunet for adding me to the mcgill energy project and hiring me for research projects

• Marco Gomez for letting the modde team work out of his beautiful office space

• Anthony Guay for building modde with me and moving on for better things

• Nick Mostovac for hosting me for summer in montreal

• Harry Brundage for teaching me how to package my first ruby gem espn-scraper

• Michael Gord for being a great friend

• Erik Støle for organizing modde fashion shoots and improving my style

• Howard Swartz for hiring Jacob Friedman and me to build carbon savings for queens university

• Tal Schwartz for co-founding Thinkwire together

• Noah Redler for letting me work late at the notman house also thanks to everyone behind the open work space

• JG Debray for hosting me for fall in montreal

• Brendan Leigh for including me on his montreal metro stations photo essay

• Gary Schwartz for believing in me and providing me great opportunities

• Marcus Daniels for letting me code evenings and weekends at the highline space

• Harold Arviv for introducing me to the world of finance and trading

• Tim Gilbert for letting me use a desk at Gilbert's Law to work after hours

• David Lucatch for teaching me about public fundraising and regulations

• Andrey Petrov for teaching me how to think like a hacker and how to organize separation of concerns for backend projects

• Grant Dexter for teaching me about the music industry and including me in his project with Coachella festival

• Peter Kieltyka for sending me a quick offer letter when i was running out of money

• Tal Schwartz again for failing fast on CreditKick together

• Nathaniel Herman for hiring me at Scale AI without a strong resume or industry experience

• Lawder Paul as the better half on design of a legendary duo, building the Text Collection and Document Transcription tools

• Melisa Tokmak for building Document AI together, promoting me to tech lead, encouraging and sponsoring me to become a manager

• Jessica Zhu for presiding over my fan club, creating a space where I was empowered to be a mentor to early career engineers