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Shaka

The Ethereum Bard · Community Steward, Open Source Orchestra
@Shakaleikaumaka · @opensourceorch

Life Before Ethereum

2008–2015 · Music & Service

2008 — Graduated high school, Denver Christian
2009 — Three semesters at Azusa Pacific University, studying music
2010 — Youth With a Mission (YWAM), 6-month program in South Africa
2012 — Technical Associates Degree in Guitar, Musicians Institute, Hollywood CA
2013–2015 — Kitchen Manager at Cafe 180, nonprofit serving free meals for volunteers

2015–2020 · On the Road

On-the-ground rep for Love Light + Melody, founded by Brad Corrigan of Dispatch
Two major US summer tours as intern — production assistant, drum tech & LLM representative. Venues include Madison Square Garden, Red Rocks, and many more across the USA
Co-founded Orquestra Amor Luz y Melodia, a youth orchestra in Managua, Nicaragua — performed 6 times on local news channels

2018–2021 · The Awakening

2018 — First introduction to Bitcoin in a 1-on-1 backyard conversation with Wences Casares
2020 — Began intensive blockchain research during lockdown
2021 — Fantom Developer Conference, Abu Dhabi — recorded a music video in the Emirates Palace basement and minted some of the first mp4 NFTs ever created (before Bored Apes). Told he "looks like an Ethereum person" — applied to volunteer at ETHGlobal Amsterdam, April 2022

Life in Ethereum · 2022

ETHGlobal Amsterdam — volunteer + gifted music for community
Devconnect closing ceremony — performed with Justin Holmes
ETH Prague — volunteer + gifted music · started the Open Source Orchestra tradition
ETHGlobal NYC & Mexico City — volunteer + gifted music
ETH Barcelona closing ceremony — performed with Justin Holmes
ETH Berlin — first livestream NFT, created by Pablo of StreamETH with a music jam
Devcon 6 Scholar — first OSO DIP activated the Music Stage at Devcon 6 Bogotá (video)
ETHGlobal Bogotá & San Francisco — volunteer + gifted music

2023

Devfolio ETH For All submission with the Broadcastr team (project)
ETH Denver — week-long side event gifting music with Broadcastr
ETHGlobal Waterloo, Paris & NYC — volunteer + gifted music
Burning Man with Griff Green & Camp Decentral — build and strike team; Blockhaus Art Cart music coordinator
ZuConnect scholarship — first Zuzalu-inspired experience; wrote a Zuzalu Song with the community
Hacked in ETH Online (MyJam)
ETHGlobal Istanbul — volunteer + gifted music; wrote an ETHGlobal Song
Devconnect Istanbul — Open Source Orchestra gifted music two days in the main lobby
ETH India — volunteer + gifted music; wrote a Devfolio Song with Denver
Founders hacker house resident, sponsored by Reclaim Protocol — wrote 3 songs with Push, OKX & Waku

2024

Vitalia popup city, Próspera, Honduras — A/V tech lead + gifted music
ETH Denver Pragma — volunteer
ETHGlobal London — volunteer + gifted music; wrote a Nethermind song with Tomasz
ZuBerlin — co A/V lead + gifted music
ETHGlobal Brussels + gifted music
ZuKastle — contributor
ETH CC closing party — gifted with the Open Source Orchestra
Zu Georgia — production lead + gifted music
Burning Man — Blockhaus Art Cart music coordinator
ETHGlobal Singapore — volunteer + gifted music; first performance at the ArtScience Museum
Shan Hai Woo, Chiang Mai — Head of Production + gifted music to the whole Zu popup archipelago
2nd edition Devcon Music Stage, hosted by the Open Source Orchestra
Hacked + gifted music at ETHGlobal Bangkok (Ethereum Dispatch)
ZuThailand scholarship — gifted music + stage design

2025

Zugrama — Head of Production + gifted music (India's first popup village)
ETH Denver — gifted music; opening ceremony performance with Jonathan Mann & Justin Holmes
ZuAfrique — gifted music to community
Zuitzerland — Head of A/V & stage design
ETH Prague — gifted music workshops
ETHGlobal Prague — volunteer + gifted music
Zu Berlin — co-production lead (receipt)
Gifted music & streaming to d/acc day Berlin (receipt)
ETH CC — lunch breaks, sponsor dinner & closing party music gifted to the community
ETHGlobal Cannes — volunteer + gifted music
Iceland IERR Retreat with Protocol Labs
Burning Man — build & strike team with Griff Green & Camp Decentral
ZuKas — contributor; gifted music + livestream
Hacked + gifted music at ETHGlobal Delhi — won Most Creative Use of ENS (Open Source Orchestra) — the birth of OSO P.I.T. ("Play IT Together"), ancestor of the P.I.T. universe
Gifted music & streaming to d/acc day Singapore at the ArtScience Museum (receipt)
Edge City Patagonia — A/V lead
Hacked in ETH Online (Tokeofapp)
Hosted the Music Stage at Devconnect World Fair
ETH Chiang Mai — A/V lead + gifted music

2026 · In Motion

ETHChiang Mai Hackathon & Summit — lead production tech, broadcast & gifted music (video 1 · video 2)
Hacked in ETH Chiang Mai (Vince) and Hackmoney 2026 (AIen)
Helping build Zuzalu Studio while living in the Zuzalu Library at 4 Seas, Chiang Mai
Main hall steward, Edge Esmeralda — built The Esmeralda P.I.T. (esmeraldapit.com), the village's knowledge transponder: 149 sessions · 122 hours · 138 synced transcripts — Public Information Transmission, born as "edgeTV," renamed for the orchestra pit + the Delhi ancestor
OSO performed at ETH Mumbai, ETH CC & ETH Prague
Next stops: Burning Man → ETHGlobal Tokyo → Devcon 8 Mumbai (Music Space committee; bringing the Open Source Orchestra to India) → back to Chiang Mai to end the year at 4 Seas

📜 Encrypted original: this CV is also published on Fileverse dDocs (end-to-end encrypted, self-sovereign): docs.fileverse.io/d/020013180001

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Butterflies and Love 🦋 · Aya's Song · G–Em–C–D

Hey Solana
We can be your (blockchain)
(soy boy) big brother
We don't need to fight a war
for users and developers
We build apps that bridge us all together
Competition can be over
Because Ethereum
Is a positive Sum
Built by and for everyone

Hey Bitcoin
Lucky you were never called a shitcoin (altcoin)
you were the first to inspire
Our Ethereum co-creator
His magazine wasn't
just an ordinary page turner
Even though we don't
Know your founder
Vitalik found inspiration
From your ledger

We should only wage war
with butterflies and love
The infinite garden isn't just a place for fun
Decentralized
Permission-less
and open-sourced
Even with the layer one as our shield,
and the layer two as our sword
All we need to wage in a war
Is butterflies and love
Because Ethereum is a positive sum
Built by and for everyone

Hey Ethereum
I still love you most of all
You are the world computer
Built by all my brothers and sisters
Together we don't have to fight a war
All we need is butterflies and love
To pollinate the infinite-garden
Which grows strong and tall
And make us all look small
In the infinite garden

Hey Aya 🌸
Don't let the arrows pointed at ya
Ever pierce your lovely heart
From the start
you were the heart beat
Of the ethereum foundation
You taught us the power of subtraction
and your very first reaction
Was that you didn't want a title
That's why we have such fertile soil
For us all to grow equal
In the infinite garden