I never really had a timeline of the things I did, so I decided to finally make one! Have fun browsing through random things I have done in my life. Near the present the list may be incomplete with things that are still cooking :).
| Age | Date | Thing |
| 21 | January, 2024 | Worked for Tensor, the #1 NFT exchange on Solana (and #2 in the world). Helped them scale their systems to process $3B of volume a year with an engineering team of 3 engineers, 2 cofounders, and 2 interns. Also went a little viral on twitter [1, 2, 3]. |
| 21 | October, 2023 | Started a quantitative trading club called “Grand River Trading”. Grew a highly curated community of quant traders, researchers, and engineers. Running meetings, events, tech projects, and more. 40 strong and always adding more. These folks enrich my life and I will do everything I can to enrich theirs :) |
| 20 | July, 2023 | Got my name in the Operating Systems textbook used by the University of Waterloo & many more institutions, “OSTEP” (Operating Systems Three Easy Pieces). Read the entire book front to back, made notes, and quizzed myself on the notes while I was studying over the summer. Notes are public here: ostep.calderwhite.com. Got put in the acknowledgements for some minor edits. |
| 20 | March, 2023 | 4th place in the midwest region for Citadel’s “Terminal” AI game competition. Won $1500. |
| 20 | March, 2023 | Placed 32nd / 8000 teams in IMC Prosperity. 10 days straight, 24 hours a day of coding quantitative trading algorithms and manual trading challenges. |
| 19 | January, 2021 | Brief stint with UW Blueprint building software for charity. Worked with the Canadian Children’s Book Society to create a book review platform. |
| 18 | January, 2020 | Started a crypto mining business. Built custom DCF models for GPUs that accounted for resale value, mining profits & power efficiency. Used these models to buy GPUs that were underpriced, mined on them and eventually sold them all for a profit before ETH transitioned from PoW to PoS. More than doubled my money in about 4 months. If only I had put more money into it… Had tons of fun doing it though and was an amazing first experience in both trading & running a business. |
| 16 | 2018 | Started learning Mandarin! 很多人问：“为什么你学中文？”。然后我说：”我有很多中国朋友 :)“ I eventually stopped learning to read & write in favour of accelerating my speaking and listening ability. I have found that speaking mandarin has deepened my connection with my peers and brought me great happiness in my life. I plan to continue learning mandarin for the rest of my life. I had two amazing teachers. My first was Zed Li, and my second Cindy Zhou. I owe them so much for their time and dedication in teaching me the nuances of Chinese and especially its standard form, 普通话. |
| 16 | 2017 | Built ROBOTS!!! Fabricated PCBs from scratch using acid. Programmed PIC chips using PIC Basic Pro & fabricated skeletons out of wood & metal in the wood & machine shops. Built a sumo bot & a firefighter. Top of my class in both years. |
| 16 | 2017 | Won local & regionals for the ECOO Programming Contest. Made it to the finals where my team placed 13th in the province. |
| 15 | 2017 | Won a few more prizes at hackathons like THacks 2 & Hack the North. Made lots of friends and had tons of fun :) |
| 15 | 2017 | Organized JAMHacks! 200+ participants for 24 hours with $10k+ in sponsorships. Member of the organizing team & eventually lead organizer over my 3 years on the team. |
| 15 | November, 2017 | Hacked GitHub! My first whitehat hack with a bounty payout and some cool swag. |
| 15 | July, 2017 | Started working in tech. Worked at SSIMWAVE (acq. IMAX), a video quality-of-experience company with proprietary algorithms to evaluate video quality. Founded by the creator of SSIM. Worked there for 2 years during highschool. |
| 14 | April, 2016 | Won my first hackathon, JAMHacks! ~200 participants. |
| 13 | 2015 | Found out you could do coding as a job!?!?? Decided to learn everything there was to learn about development so I could get an internship like some other students in my future highschool. |
| 12 | 2014 | Started coding. Played around with scratch & Minecraft logic gates. Eventually found the Javascript scratchpad in Firefox and the rest is history. I don’t think I have every enjoyed something in such a pure and unadulterated way in my entire life. Every function & command I learned brought me so much joy. |