Gabriel Dabbah
I like to listen, talk, read, write, and create. My current interests are type theory, alternative models of computation, hypercomputation, logic, philosophy, political theology, aesthetics, power, and identity.
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The path here
My story
- Origin
Born in São Paulo, Brazil
- First build
During elementary-school recess, I made my first website to order and sold it
- Private servers
Before I was nine, I was making private game servers with databases and real-time connections
Mostly script-kiddie behavior - Virtual economies
Trading and creating games in Habbo Hotel made virtual value feel strangely real. When Bitcoin appeared, I asked for it as a birthday gift
I did not receive any. I probably would have sold too early anyway - Creating worlds
I started writing fanfiction, poems, and short stories while building Minecraft servers, custom plugins, and eventually a technology news site
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Played a bit too much Counter-Strike and League of Legends
- United States
Moved from São Paulo to the United States on an E15 visa
- Work & study
I studied computer science while building websites, working different jobs, and became a Java & Python tutor at HowardCC
- Onyx Health
Worked full-time as a software engineering intern at Onyx Health , then became a business analyst there
- University of Maryland
Started studying Computer Science at the University of Maryland
- Citizen
Became a United States citizen — now a dual citizen of the U.S. and Brazil
- Graduation
Graduated with a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Maryland.
- Now
Building the next big thing