Quant Finance
Global Equity Quant Fund (2020 - 2022)
Started a small quant fund that was acquired by a larger fund, Dark Forest Tech. Designed and implemented the full tech stack. Was responsible for 5 bps of US equity volume.
Bridgewater (2019 - 2020)
Was a Quant on Bridgewater's ML Investment team, called the "Disruption Lab". Worked on a variety of asset classes.
Daily Fantasy Hockey (2019)
Was briefly one of the best in the world at DFS Hockey. Built a discrete optimization that exploited top-heavy prizes.
Distributed Systems
Stride (2022 - 2025)
Raised $15m+ to build infrastructure for blockchains. Stride is the primary liquid staking protocol in the Cosmos ecosystem. At peak, had $200m+ in TVL.
Basis (2018 - 2019)
Was employee #9 at Basis, one of the first decentralized stablecoins ($135m raised). I worked on modeling a distributed Federal Reserve.
Reinforcement Learning
AlphaGammon
Trained an RL model to play backgammon, inspired by AlphaZero. This model is substantially different than existing BG models (which are all TD-Gammon variants). Achieved PR of ~20.
BluffArena
Eval framework for testing models' ability to play bluffing games, like poker.
For Fun
Blue
Chat with an AI Agent on iMessage. Used by my friends and family. Try it out: +1 (470) 338-7435
About Me
General
Married to my high school sweetheart, Nisha. Have a cute puppy named Hobbes. Based in NYC.
Favorites
Books: LBJ Series by Caro, Old Man and the Sea by Hemingway, Dungeon Crawler Carl by Dinniman.
Movies: Good Will Hunting, Remember the Titans, The Social Network.
Games: Poker (2-7 NL SD), Backgammon, Dune.Education
UChicago 2018 (BS Math, BS Stat, BA Econ). TJHSST 2014.