Xipu Li

Twelve months ago, I landed in Seattle with an "ambition": work hard to get promoted to L5 for my new grad job at AWS.

I quit my job at Amazon in May to join a startup called [Icon](https://icon.com).

A crazy amount of events had happened, let's skip the intro. ## March - Arrow Meetup As a member of [Arrow Air](https://arrowair.com/), I went to Denver, CO for a large event: [ETHDenver](https://ethdenver.com/).

## Intro Last week, I was still crunching numbers in financial models to evaluate investment opportunities, and now, I'm thousands of miles above the ground, on my way to San Diego to begin a software engineer internship at a crypto startup.

## Breaking into tech (Jan - Oct) Year 2021 felt like an uneventful weekend given the backdrop of how much had occurred in 2020.