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Though it has been a long journey, I have completed a career overhaul to become a software developer focused on building Ethereum smart contracts. Beginning as an architecture student, after two years in a three year program at Columbia University GSAPP, in 2015 I discovered Ethereum and realized I was meant to be a developer and, eventually, an entrepreneur. My first foray into the blockchain space was a whitepaper describing how Ethereum could be used to reinvent the community-supported agriculture (CSA) model, returning its focus to driving engagement in local food economies. The concept, which I called FarmShare, was very well received in the fledgling industry, but after the infamous DAO attack in 2016 I realized it was too soon for such a project to be successful, and I didn't have the necessary skills to build it. I spent the summer of '16 working with the FOAM team, building their initial MVP app with the CTO as a mentor, before returning to Columbia to complete my degree. After graduating I started an internship with ConsenSys, which led to a full-time role, albeit as a brand designer. I did not enjoy the role, and I wanted to become a developer, so I was not too disappointed when the market crashed and my team was laid off in 2018, giving me the opportunity to reinvent myself. The following year I worked in retail while preparing myself to go back to school for a CS degree, which I began in 2020 at IIT. Though at first I was unsure about the blockchain industry, by 2021 I knew I had unfinished business in Web3. I found an opportunity to work on blockchain security research with Prof. Yue Duan at IIT, and began a study on upgradeable smart contracts which would eventually be accepted for publication at USENIX Security '23. After submitting that I began another upgradeability-related project, this time a differential fuzzing tool for smart contracts. This caught the attention of security auditing firm Trail of Bits, who hired me as a spring associate to continue the project. The resulting tool can be found at https://github.com/crytic/diffusc. Throughout my journey I have had success in several Web3 hackathons, starting with Consensus '17 where I was on the grand-prize winning team BlockBox. In '22 I was the lead smart contract dev on the FarmKudos team at ETHDenver, which made it to the final round. At ETHWaterloo '23 I was the lead full-stack dev for the Habitat team, winning $2k in sponsor prizes. I have also completed the Ethernaut and DamnVulnerableDeFi security CTFs. Now I'm looking for opportunities to continue my new career in Web3!