My job is to build the tools and resources that help people build their dreams.
I wanted to play Minecraft and had no money for it, so I did bottle returns until I did. Then I sold little handmade toys to buy a PC to run it.
I was eight. There was no master plan. I just really wanted to play.
By thirteen I'd turned our basement into a server farm, and people were paying me to host the worlds they were building. That's where I realized I enjoyed building the infrastructure behind other people's dreams a lot more than just playing Minecraft myself.
It's still online today, hosting other people's worlds.
■ Visit Androhost ↗My background's in mechatronics, but honestly I've built a little of everything. CNC routers and laser cutters. A robotic arm. An electric bike from salvaged battery cells. IoT sensors. Somewhere in there, an edible skateboard. Plenty of it flopped, which was honestly the best part.
In college I helped raise the money for a student lab, then helped build it and ended up running it. About 1,800 square feet where anyone could walk in and make whatever was in their head.
Watching people pull off stuff they weren't sure they could is still better than anything I've made myself.
These days it looks like a few things. Same idea as the basement, just scaled up.