I've been building things since I was ten years old.

First it was a media company in Jamaica—Vybz Media, which somehow grew to seven employees by the time I was sixteen. Then hackathons: I organized Jamaica's first one in 2015, fifty-two people in a room for thirty hours, building things that mostly didn't work but proved something could happen. We grew it to the largest hackathon in the Caribbean, with hundreds of attendees and dozens of sponsors. This became the ultimate catalyst for my career in technology, showing me the power of community and what happens when you give people permission to build together.

Then, during the COVID-199 pandemic, a Facebook group of 70,000 members that became a global supply chain. Open Source Medical Supplies mobilized makers in garages and basements around the world, shipping medical supplies to hospitals that needed them. We raised $1M backed by the Schmidt Foundation. I learned something that year about what happens when you remove the barriers between people who want to help and the help that's needed.

Now I'm in Miami. I helped build Miami Hack Week—backed by Founders Fund, Softbank, Ramp, Atomic, and Craft Ventures—which started as an idea and became a city-wide movement. I lead developer marketing, storytelling, and community at Devpost, the global home for hackathons, where people with ideas come together to build, learn, and share what they've made alongside the world's leading technology companies.

I also spend time in venture, working with early-stage companies and founders building at the edges of what's possible.

The thread through all of it? I keep coming back to the same question: what happens when you give people permission to build together?