On a sabbatical, working on projects that combine markets, infrastructure, and applied engineering: market data infrastructure for niche assets, small-cap equities, prediction markets, and crypto; a paid technical publication on quantitative development and trading-systems engineering; and research into systematic HFT/MFT strategies in niche, capacity-constrained markets.
If you're working on something interesting, I'd love to hear about it. Happy to share what I'm working on too.
Square (Block) — Staff Software Engineer / Technical Lead
Technical lead on high-throughput payment systems, where I helped take new products from zero to $5B+ in volume and $100M+ in annual gross PnL. The work spanned settlements, financial data, and consumer lending — legal- and compliance-heavy products where correctness is the product.
Promoted to Staff Software Engineer / Technical Lead at 23; my team's work has been cited in multiple shareholder letters.
Fintech startup — First Engineer / Technical Lead
First engineer and technical lead at a fintech startup building employer-side financial wellness tools for stock compensation, RSUs, and 10b5-1 plan management.
Early years
Started a few small businesses as a teenager, then moved to San Francisco immediately after high school to start working in tech.
Domains
- Payments & settlements
- Consumer lending
- Financial data
- Market data
- Trading systems
Engineering
- High-throughput distributed systems
- Data pipelines
- API & systems design
- Python · TypeScript · SQL
Quantitative
- Statistical modeling
- Systematic strategy research
- Backtesting infrastructure
- Market microstructure