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Passionate Software Engineer from Sydney, Australia!

Nam Dao

Building Soma Capital

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About

Hi, I'm Nam from Vietnam. If I'm not pushing buttons on the keyboard and moving pixels on the screen, you can catch me taking food pics at a restaurant or travelling around the world :^)

I've been coding all my life -- ever since I was 12. In high school, I built a community of gamers around my gaming servers called Risen Network, which grew to 3400 members on Discord and earned $50k via our e-commerce site. We were #5 in the US for the game called Unturned.

During my career, I've had the great pleasure of working with the best of the best in Sydney and San Francisco, where I saw first hand, how products were designed, built and shipped to the users.

And I'm just getting started...

Bio

2000Born in Hanoi, Vietnam
2004Relocated to Kusatsu (草津町), Japan
2011Relocated to Gold Coast, Australia
2017Started Risen Network, a gaming community based in Los Angeles and Sydney for Unturned. Eventually, I grew it to 3400 members on the Discord and earned $50k via the e-commerce site.
2021Worked at Telstra
2021Dropped out of The University of Sydney after pursuing my Bachelors of Advanced Computing (Software Development) for 3 years.
2021Worked at Eucalyptus
2022Worked at Coinbooks (YC S22)
2022Worked at Canva
2023Building Soma Capital

Things I ♥

Travelling, Cycling, Walking my dog, and getting silly with the boys

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