hello world, i'm dennis - born in germany. my mom is from germany, dad from spain. at 15, i moved to south africa and have since lived, worked and studied on all continents except australia (coming for you soon).
tl;dr - i write code and produce music. currently based in san francisco.
i've got a computer science degree from minerva and also spent a few years diving into finance & stats at the uni of cape town. during minerva i lived in india, south korea, argentina, mexico, united states and germany.
i'm a builder at heart and have developed a healthy rhythm of writing code and producing music. the energy feeds of each other and it has allowed me to explore both realms simultaneously. during code blocks i enjoy a music writing session. during music writer's block i love to build web apps and dive into on chain development.
leave a message in my on chain guestbook! It's a simple smart contract I wrote and deployed on solana's devnet and it's open to anyone to leave a comment if interested. 😄
check it out here
projects
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built a prototype for the composable stablecoin of solana (devnet)
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built out the web stack at sunshine
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built a professional music production feedback platform
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built an ethereum nft marketplace / auction house before it was cool (and gas fees were low)
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built a movie recommendation chatbot
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covid tweet sentiment analysis (nlp)
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developed an app prototype with kakao group korea
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won blockchain hackathon in sf
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finalist at aws cryptocurrency hackathon at jalisco talentland (mexico)
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won music production contest - judged by kenny beats, finneas & billie eilish
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winner in owl city's official remix contest
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got support from some of the biggest blogs / youtube channels and labels for my music
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growing music roster with over 1m streams across streaming platforms
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founded minerva uni's blockchain society (cryptco)
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helped grow galvanize's dev bootcamp in sf
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learned about company culture and human capital m&a at ernst & young (ey) in mexico city
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performed market research and financial analysis at a boutique investment bank in medellin
tools
i've built & worked on projects with javascript / typescript (vanilla, react / next, vue), python (tensorflow, keras), r, rust (anchor), solidity, google cloud services (bigquery, firestore, storage, serverless functions), aws (lambda, dynamodb, cloudfront), apache thrift and a bit of scala.
my fav daw is ableton. i also love arturia's analog emulators, especially the stage-73, jun-6 and dx7 (fm synthesis ftw). my all time fav plugin has to be the granulator - granular synthesis is pure ear candy (best of all it's free).
cities i lived in
berlin, hamburg (germany) / cape town, pretoria (south africa) / medellin (colombia) / mexico city (mexico) / san francisco (us) / seoul (south korea) / hyderabad (india) / buenos aires (argentina)