Blog
Notes on what I'm learning — risk, statistics, quantitative finance, and the occasional dispatch from the boathouse. Every few weeks, something real.
- What breaks when a risk model has to run every night
I built RiskDesk — an end-of-day market-risk platform that runs the nightly loop a bank risk desk runs. The VaR math was the easy part.
- How I solved Jane Street's July puzzle
Reconstructing a 3-D knight's walk from eleven scribbled numbers — a pixel ruler, one forced deduction, and a search that was over almost before it began.
- Goals for next semester
What I'm aiming at for fall 2026 — coursework, research, recruiting, and rowing.
- What a treasury desk taught me about data science
Three lessons from a summer building data tools at Cisco that no course had taught me.
- Why this site exists
A personal corner of the internet that isn't a feed — what this site is and what will show up here.