👤Introduction
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💡 Welcome to my headquarters. I’m from Tunis, Tunisia. If you know Tataouin from Star Wars, it is a real place in my country where the film was shot. I am a senior at the University of Rochester, studying Data Science.
Currently, I run the Blockchain Acceleration Foundation, a nonprofit focused on blockchain adoption. Previously, I built products at Amalthea FS and Mos. Perpetually, I'm fascinated by the possibilities of technology for good, bad, and trivial.
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🗓️Recap: 2023
- January-March: Had my first Research Assistant experience at the Human-Computer Interaction Lab at UR
- April: Announced the BAF x Algorand Partnership to grow blockchain education in Latin America
- May: Did my first Solo trip to Europe
- June-July: Did my first Software Engineering internship at Amalthea FS in Paris
- End of July: Wrote and launched the BAF Blockchain Club Toolkit
- August: Spent time with my family in Kelibia, Tunisia
- End of August: Did my first cross-country road trip with my friend AJ: Seattle to NY
- September: Received a scholarship to attend the Out 4 Undergrad Conference
- October: Got appointed Co-President of the Blockchain Acceleration Foundation by the board
- November: Co-organized 0xVillage with Yigit (a cryptography symposium in Western Turkey)
- December: Got accepted into the E5 program with a full tuition scholarship to spend a fifth year working on an entrepreneurial project (in my case BAF)
- December: Celebrated Christmas with my friend AJ in Seattle and started the Consensys Blockchain Bootcamp
- January 2024: Landed a Software Engineering Internship for the Summer of 2024 which was my biggest goal for 2023
Throughout the year, I learned a fifth Language: Spanish
🪅 Learnings: 2023