Meritt: The Human-Only Social Networklaunched in early November 2024 and has already achieved:ᐧ 14M+ Impressionsᐧ 140k+ Sessionsᐧ 40k+ MAUspowered by World (WLD)

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full-stack software engineer working with Python/Django in the backend and NextJs/Typescript for the frontend.left after a couple short months to pursue entrepreneurial endeavours.

told the CEO: "fudge it, i'll build it myself". (i didn't really say that but it sounds cool)joined the tech team and spent most of my days coding with an extremely talented group of developers. During my time with the tech team I...- Supported the FE development of staking in the MELDapp and successfully solo deployed the product on launch day despite being the most junior dev on the team. Staking TVL was $10M+ by the end of Q1 and continuously growing. - Led frontend smart… Show more told the CEO: "fudge it, i'll build it myself". (i didn't really say that but it sounds cool)joined the tech team and spent most of my days coding with an extremely talented group of developers. During my time with the tech team I...- Supported the FE development of staking in the MELDapp and successfully solo deployed the product on launch day despite being the most junior dev on the team. Staking TVL was $10M+ by the end of Q1 and continuously growing. - Led frontend smart contract interactions, api integrations and technical project management for MELD's Lending & Borrowing Protocol. Went from blank page to fully functioning testnet in 30 days.- Managed external developer teams working w/ MELD on technical requirements, product specs and overall product management.- Fixed a loooooooooooot of bugs- Wrote a good chunk of our dev docs Show less

year 2 was even more insane than year 1 but here's the TLDR:1. literally signed the transactions that launched the MELD Blockchain and setup the liquidity pools for the new $MELD token. that was one crazy week in Barcelona with ledgers flying all over the place and a memory i truly cherish. 2. hired so many talented people and had to sadly let go of many more. had to cut staff by 40% at one point, one of the hardest things i've had to do so far in my professional life.3. led a full… Show more year 2 was even more insane than year 1 but here's the TLDR:1. literally signed the transactions that launched the MELD Blockchain and setup the liquidity pools for the new $MELD token. that was one crazy week in Barcelona with ledgers flying all over the place and a memory i truly cherish. 2. hired so many talented people and had to sadly let go of many more. had to cut staff by 40% at one point, one of the hardest things i've had to do so far in my professional life.3. led a full airdrop & growth campaign from ideation to execution which got us 50k signups in 3 months for our main product. Once of my proudest achievements and biggest learning moments of the year.4. did i mention NFTs? yeah a lot of NFTs.5. launched and revamped affiliate & ambassador programs respectively and turned it into something that was actually half decent. managed payments, meetings and a community ~20 ambassadors and 2k affiliates.6. last but not least, took any opportunity that presented itself for technical work including building bots, api integrations, landing pages and anything that involved coding as i slowly fell in love with software engineering Show less

was a complete noob when it came to crypto but still managed to...1. get the $MELD token listing on a top 10 CEX & successfully negotiated a ~30% decrease in the listing fee. 2. close 20+ partnerships in <2 months leading up to the "25 Days of MELD", a month long christmas marketing campaign with new partnership/integration announcements every-single-day. 3. write a few python scripts to automate stuff and saved the team many man-hours were it done manually.4. not get totally… Show more was a complete noob when it came to crypto but still managed to...1. get the $MELD token listing on a top 10 CEX & successfully negotiated a ~30% decrease in the listing fee. 2. close 20+ partnerships in <2 months leading up to the "25 Days of MELD", a month long christmas marketing campaign with new partnership/integration announcements every-single-day. 3. write a few python scripts to automate stuff and saved the team many man-hours were it done manually.4. not get totally rekt by the bear market Show less

In my 1st year running SY Hospitality Services, I provided my services as an independent freelancer within the hospitality industry. Whilst in my 2nd year, I conducted a competitive analysis of the Dutch hospitality industry. In my investigation I found a market gap to fill which boiled down to connecting highly driven students with low-paying opportunities to understaffed hospitality businesses willing to pay high wages.Partnered with another ambitious student entrepreneur… Show more In my 1st year running SY Hospitality Services, I provided my services as an independent freelancer within the hospitality industry. Whilst in my 2nd year, I conducted a competitive analysis of the Dutch hospitality industry. In my investigation I found a market gap to fill which boiled down to connecting highly driven students with low-paying opportunities to understaffed hospitality businesses willing to pay high wages.Partnered with another ambitious student entrepreneur and tackled the gap resulting in recruiting and growing a talent pool from 0 to 100+ working students in 2 months with a combined total of 1000+ hours of shifts taken in the first 6 weeks.I also advised students & young professionals with registering at the Chamber of Commerce and starting their own companies. Show less

ASIF Ventures is an Amsterdam-based venture capital fund, completely run by students. We make Amsterdam student life more entrepreneurial, by investing in student startups.As part of the Operations & Finance team, my goal was to help expand the angel investor network, establish corporate sponsorships, assist portfolio companies with financial forecasting and create investment contracts.Key Metrics- Co-created sponsorship pitch deck aimed at raising funds from corporate… Show more ASIF Ventures is an Amsterdam-based venture capital fund, completely run by students. We make Amsterdam student life more entrepreneurial, by investing in student startups.As part of the Operations & Finance team, my goal was to help expand the angel investor network, establish corporate sponsorships, assist portfolio companies with financial forecasting and create investment contracts.Key Metrics- Co-created sponsorship pitch deck aimed at raising funds from corporate sponsors.- Hosted and moderated VU pitching competition with €16.000+ EUR in cash and non-cash rewards. - Supported the strategic vision, organisation and fundraising of ASIF Ventures' largest yearly event, "Pitch XL", with a total attendance of 200+ investors, entrepreneurs and students. Show less