I wrote my first line of code at the age of 9, because I wanted to hack Club Penguin. After seeing my first hack work so well (even if 90% of it was from tutorials) , I was fascinated by the potential of computer programming. Soon after, I started developing mods and servers for SA:MP - a multiplayer mod of GTA: San Andreas. From there, I moved on to developing mods and servers for Team Fortress 2 where I discovered microtransactions and in-game economies. I started developing trading bots for various games which featured such economies, and served over 200 clients with my scripts and websites in 2-3 years. This was around the time I got introduced to Bitcoin through an incentivized online chatroom called CoinChat. I developed a few multiplayer text based games for CoinChat, which led me to earning around 40BTC which I regrettably ended up spending on emojis in the chatroom. Soon after, I got introduced to Ethereum and Hyperledger technologies - and have been doing blockchain related development ever since.
These days, I am working on building a Self-Sovereign Identity platform targeting Sub-Saharan Africa over at FlexFinTx (https://flexfintx.com/)