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# Title of the page
title: "Neil's Life"
# Your name
author: Neil Gupta
# Show a link to LinkedIn in the header intro. Comment out to disable.
# linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/guptaneil/
# Show a link at the top of your timeline to your main personal site
# Comment this out to disable
personal_site:
url: https://neil.gg
title: neil.gg
# show today marker at end of timeline
show_today: true
# Your timeline is split into periods (e.g., decades, childhood/teens/adult, "Before Timeliner"/"After Timeliner", etc)
# Each period has a list of events formatted as `- date: title`. If you don't want to have period dividers, leave out the name field.
periods:
- events:
- October 1990: "👶 Neil is born in Michigan. Hello world!"
- December 1990: "✈️ Neil moves to California."
- August 1994: "👶 Neil's sister, Nandini, is born."
- February 1995: "💩 Neil splatters poop on his walls while swinging a garbage bag with a dirty diaper. This is his first physics lesson."
- December 1997: "🏠 Neil moves to a new home on Christmas. It's 100% less shitty than the last one."
- July 1998: "🎬 Neil directs his first action movie using a VHS camcorder and PowerMac 8500."
- March 1999: "🕶 The Matrix is released. Neil has to clarify his name isn't Neo for the rest of the decade."
- June 1999: "🔥 Neil's internet connection is upgraded from dial-up to 6mbps DSL. He starts tinkering with web development. And Napster."
- name: 2000's
events:
- October 2000: "🎂 Neil turns 10 as the dot-com bubble collapses. It's a new millennium."
- August 2002: "🎓 Neil starts middle school."
- August 2002: "🧮 Neil gets a TI-83 Plus Silver Edition calculator that he uses to program games in BASIC during class."
- September 2002: "🏹 Neil earns his Arrow of Light, graduating from a Cub Scout to Boy Scout."
- July 2004: "👨💻 Neil launches WebScope.tv, a video sharing platform for his friends because YouTube doesn't exist yet."
- August 2004: "🎓 Neil starts high school."
- December 2005: "👨💻 Neil cofounds Amalgam, an online literary magazine, and builds a NoSQL CMS to power it."
- September 2006: "👨💻 Neil cofounds Metamorphium Design, a profitable web design business."
- May 2007: "👨💻 Neil joins a sports social network as developer #1. He works out of a literal garage in Silicon Valley."
- August 2007: "📱 Neil gets the first iPhone. People make fun of him for spending $600 on a phone."
- August 2008: "✈️ Neil moves to Chicago."
- November 2009: >-
📷 Neil gets a DSLR camera and picks up <a href="https://photos.neil.gg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"
title="See some of my photos">photography as a hobby</a>.
- name: 2010's
events:
- June 2010: "✈️ Neil studies abroad in Paris."
- October 2010: 🎂 Neil turns 20 amidst the Great Recession.
- October 2011: 🏆 Neil becomes a ThinkChicago Fellow.
- December 2011: >-
💻 Neil works with <a href="https://vimeo.com/33098706" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Watch a slideshow of
my team's trip to Haiti">Haiti's Ministry of Education, OLPC, and IIT</a> to deploy solar panels, laptops, and servers pre-loaded with
Wikipedia in a Haitian school.
- May 2012: >-
🎓 Neil graduates from Illinois Institute of Technology with degrees in Computer Science & Psychology, a minor in Entrepreneurship,
and a specialization in Artificial Intelligence.
- June 2012: 👨💻 Neil cofounds <a href="https://www.neil.gg/work/tabule" target="_blank">Tabule</a>, a smart student planner powered by AI.
- July 2012: >-
🎙 Neil does a <a href="https://vimeo.com/45029595" target="_blank" rel="noopener">press conference with Rahm Emanuel</a> about Tabule and
Chicago tech. Emanuel says "Chicago needs more Neils." Neil agrees for exactly 3 years.
- June 2013: 👨💻 Tabule is acqui-hired by Eligo, where Neil builds tools to automate repetitive processes.
- August 2014: >-
👨💻 Neil builds the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oo6b5gZqm0A" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Watch the
Flocks in action">Flocks</a>, an IoT art installation that reacts to its environment and Twitter. Cisco displays two at their Internet of Things
conference.
- December 2014: >-
👨💻 Neil works with Eren Bali to prototype Maven, the operating system for your business.
- May 2015: 👨💻 Neil joins Instructure to build educational software again.
- July 2015: 🤕 Neil gets hit by a bicyclist named Neil G. He wakes up in the hospital with 14 stitches on his face but no new superpowers.
- November 2015: 🏠 Neil buys his first home in South Loop.
- January 2018: 🤖 Neil builds an AI to manage his home for him.
- September 2018: 🛠 Neil turns his second bedroom into a prototyping lab with four 3D printers and a soldering bench.
- January 2019: 🏆 Neil receives a grant from Y Combinator to keep building his smart home tech.
- April 2019: >-
👨💻 Neil founds <a href="https://hiome.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hiome</a> to change how we use our homes.
- name: 2020's
events:
- May 2020: >-
🦠 Neil launches <a href="https://researchexplained.neil.gg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Research Explained</a> to make visual
summaries of COVID-19 research accessible to anyone.
- August 2020: 👨💻 Neil joins Guilded to build the community platform for gamers.
- October 2020: 🎂 Neil turns 30 in lockdown from a global pandemic.
- April 2021: 🏠 Neil moves to a <a href="https://iframe.videodelivery.net/eff74a655073268af5709eb38cd42104" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Tour my home">new home</a> in Streeterville.
- May 2021: 🐶 Neil's sister adopts <a href="https://photos.neil.gg/wally" target="_blank" title="Meet our beautiful greyhound!">Wally</a>, fulfilling a life-long Gupta sibling dream and granting him unlimited dog time with none of the work.
- October 2022: 🏃♂️ Neil runs his first 10k race.
- April 2024: ✈️ Neil becomes <strike>homeless</strike> a digital nomad, selling his home and most his <a href="https://neil.gg/uses/" target="_blank" title="My daily drivers and favorite things">things</a>.