Biographical Notes

A life lived in chapters.

Portrait of Komal Amin smiling in a mustard top.

My career makes more sense in reverse. Today I work at the intersection of AI, community, and human behaviour. But the path here ran through corporate boardrooms, theatre stages, crypto rabbit holes, and an AI gaming studio, in roughly that order, and each chapter only made sense because of the one before it.

I grew up between cultures. Born to immigrant parents in London, moved to Switzerland at thirteen, and spent most of my life since then trying to understand why people think, feel, and behave the way they do. That curiosity has never really had a fixed address, professionally or geographically.

"The craft was deeply challenging in ways I didn't expect, learning to be vulnerable, to access your emotional self in ways most people spend their lives avoiding."

I started in corporate. Banking, FMCG, sales, account management. I learned to think in systems and move at scale. But something was missing, and what many saw as a radical left turn into professional acting, I saw as a return to myself. A deep need to understand human communication from the inside, not just market it. The craft was deeply challenging in ways I didn't expect, learning to be vulnerable, to access your emotional self in ways most people spend their lives avoiding. And then there was the life around the craft. Reckoning with rejection, hustling between jobs, making peace with uncertainty, learning what survival actually costs. It taught me more about people than any boardroom ever could.

Then 2020 happened, and a rabbit hole into crypto pulled together parts of me I thought were separate. The younger version curious about money and how the world really runs, and the restless version yearning for something fairer, more transparent, more free. Blockchain felt like it could rewire how we coordinate, how we own things, how we belong. I spent years trying to make it accessible, writing about it, communicating it, eventually working in gaming where the social layer made the thesis tangible. The timing for blockchain gaming hasn't quite landed, but the conviction that technology should serve human connection, not replace it, hasn't shifted.

We aren't just designing tools; we are designing new ways to belong.

Now AI is forcing an entirely new set of questions into the public consciousness, and I want to be part of that conversation. Everything converges here. The question is what we build with it, and for whom.