From coding at 7 to EigenLayer engineer at 16: Gajesh's journey
ai · x · 2026-08-24
Developer Gajesh's journey: started coding at 7, built a startup chatbot at 10, and created a finance app managing $7M AUM at 13. Joined Eigen Labs as an engineer at 15, moved to Seattle on an O1 visa at 16, and helped grow EigenLayer to over $10B AUM. He recently founded DarkBloomAI to enable Mac users to run open-weight models and earn.
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