Pepper.
Melbourne · available for chats

Hi, I'm Minh.
I build things, and I'm figuring it out in public.

I'm 19. I came to Australia with nothing, spent three years grinding fourteen hours a day, and now I'm a founding engineer at a Sydney startup. This is where I write down the rest of it.

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Portrait of Pepper
Pepper - Melbourne2026

The story

Not talent. Obsession, repeated.

Four chapters. Empty pockets to founding engineer.

  1. 01

    2024

    Landed with nothing.

    Came to Australia with empty pockets. My parents borrowed money to put me on the plane.

    Arrival
    Arrival · 2024
  2. 02

    2024 - 2025

    Fourteen hours a day. For three years.

    No shortcuts. Just stupid amounts of repetition while the rest of the world slept.

    The grind
    The grind · 2024 - 2025
  3. 03

    2025

    Six figures. Big tech. Founding engineer.

    Crossed 100k at 19. Broke into big tech. Now founding engineer at a Sydney startup.

    The break
    The break · 2025
  4. 04

    Now

    Building my own life - out loud.

    Shipping products, posting the messy middle, writing the script I didn't get handed.

    Building
    Building · Now

Receipts

Income at 19

100k

Crossed six figures before most of my friends finished their first internship.

2025

Offer landed

Big Tech

Passed the bar I once thought was impossible from a borrowed laptop in a shared bedroom.

2025

Engineer · Sydney

Founding

Building product from zero - architecture, infra, the whole stack - next to the founders.

Now

The work

Three doors into the same house.