projects & experiments
long-form writeups of things i've built — what the problem actually was, the approach, the part where i had to make a real tradeoff, and what came out of it.
for shipped work and open-source contributions, see /work.
PokerGPT
work in progressAn AI poker coach that walks through hands the way a thoughtful human would — strategy, position, equity, and the part where you sit with how uncomfortable folding the right hand actually feels.
Quantum Doodle
work in progressDraw a quantum circuit the way you'd doodle on a notebook margin — and watch the state vector evolve in real time. A small protest against how textbook QM is taught.
MarketMind
completedA sentiment-driven market signal pipeline — financial news + social media in, predicted directional moves out. Built mostly to find out, the hard way, why it doesn't work.
Diamond Handz Tracker
completedA real-time tracker for meme stocks, built during the GameStop saga to make sense of what was actually happening underneath the noise.
TerminalTrajectory
completedA 2D space shooter that runs entirely in the terminal, with a from-scratch physics engine doing the gravity, momentum, and collisions in ASCII.
currently chewing on
open questions i'm circling — some will become projects, some will stay arguments i have with myself. listed because the surface area of what holds your attention is its own kind of resume.
- monte-carlo + simulation-based inference for portfolio risk under extreme market conditions — when historical vol estimates lie
- a small language model built from first principles, mostly to demystify what training actually feels like at every layer
- a personal search engine over everything i read, write, and bookmark — something with the discipline of a vector store and the soul of a commonplace book
- a robo-advisor that takes a stance — defaulting to index funds is a defensible answer, but it shouldn't be the only one a tool is willing to give