I turned side questing into a modern prestige profession.
All it took was being cynical about everything except myself, then post-training my own policy to maximize expected return (serendipitous events (luck surface area)) by improving it until probability mass collapsed onto high-value action sequences, with mixed rollouts reserved for exploration.
That led me to attempt zero-employee companies as a way to build my way out of the permanent underclass, one day at a time.
If I had to give one piece of advice on carving your own path, and I mean truly your own, it’s this: protect your cogsec. The pendulum swings. The mind decays. They will tug at it, prompt-inject the latest psyop, and try to steer your internal model for you. Don’t let them.
Hold the line long enough and you win.
compute markets
﹂Compute Trading Lead @ Jump Trading
﹂reporting directly to the CIO
﹂leading the compute trading division
﹂compute marketplace inbound: amustafa@jumptrading.com
﹂Founded The Agentic Desk for Compute (Itô, ALL17, acq.)
﹂Fixed-rate GPU capacity, any cluster, any dates, with reserve options and hedges priced in
open source
﹂Creator of ECC: built at 22. the fastest growing agentic engineering toolkit of all time
﹂100k stars in 2 months. 272k+ now, #16 most starred repo on GitHub
﹂used by engineers at Tesla, xAI, Amazon, ByteDance, Skydio, GoDaddy
﹂flown out to China to speak at ByteDance. technical talks at Skydio
﹂hosted GitHub App with private-repo support, paid tier from $19/mo · ecc.tools
Consulting: ECC enterprise rollout, agent-harness performance, security review. ecc.tools/pricing · DM @affaan
Author of the Claude Code guides and the agentic security guide: 5M+ views combined, 25M+ impressions across socials.
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| Shorthand Guide 9.8K likes · 1.2k reposts · 4.1M views |
Longform Guide 1.2K likes · 241 reposts · 459K views |
Security Guide 201 likes · 30 reposts · 54k views |
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ECC The Agent Harness resource · ecc.tools  
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agentshield AI agent security scanner · 1,609 tests · Cerebral Valley × Anthropic · GitHub Marketplace  
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JARVIS Real-time OSINT via autonomous web scraping + Meta Ray-Ban glasses  
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claude-swarm Multi-agent orchestration for Claude Code · standalone tool  
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stoictradingAI First autonomous trading agent on Solana · 70k peak live viewers  
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HyperMamba Hypernetworks + meta-learning for trading · SSRN paper  
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Papers / mentions: HyperMamba SSRN paper, ResearchGate
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| Ex-PMX Head of Product / Founding Engineer | Took the pmx.trade launchpad past $300k MRR, built + secured the #1 trading bot on Polymarket (2025) |
| Open-Source Distribution | Built ECC (ecc.tools) and contributed to elizaOS/eliza + 0xPlaygrounds/rig |
| Autonomous Trading Systems | Built various agentic yield + trading platforms (@stoictradingai on X / repo / AYO-era) with $40M+ combined peak FDV; 70k peak live viewers building in public |
| Anthropic Hackathon Winner | Zenith Chat: 1st / 100+ people, $15k credits |
| Research / Academia | 3-degree path across UCSD (graduated with 2 B.S. before I was 20 + UW (dropped out) (B.S. Math-CS, B.S. Business Economics (M.S. into P.h.D track (dropped out) - Applied/Computational Math ): UCSD Econ Research Lab, UW AMATH, UCSD URC mention |
| Research Output | HyperMamba (SSRN), microcap sentiment/manipulation work (ResearchGate), and code in research / HyperMamba / Behavioral_RL / econ-research-wi24 / econ-research-ss24 / quranic-arabic-recognition-dl / supply-chain-ml-optimization / market-manipulation-microcap-crypto |
| $150k+ Bootstrapped | Founded DCUBE at 18 (UCSD Basement portfolio), self-funded tuition |
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