Portfolio

Project-first, roughly reverse-chronological. The center of gravity is quantitative research — HPC, machine-learning factor models, and quantum computing — with a tail of builds that taught me how to ship. Each entry links to the code or a long-form write-up.

Research

RegimeFactorZoo — ML factor models with a regime-stability test · 2026 → present Fama-French and ML factor models on fully public data, testing whether sparse factor selections survive a volatility-regime change. → Read the write-up · Code

Quantum computing foundations — Hong Lab · 2026 → present The linear algebra under qubits, gates, entanglement, and measurement, and where quantum amplitude estimation beats classical Monte Carlo for pricing. → Read the write-up

qhpc_cache — cache behavior of finance kernels (BigRed200) · 2025 → 2026 Empirical L1-cache characterization of Cholesky, Monte Carlo, GARCH, and GEMM on AMD EPYC, measured with PAPI. Every claim traces to a hardware counter. → Read the write-up · Code

Systems and tooling

disk-archival-toolkit — bounded-memory filesystem audit · 2025 Streams multi-terabyte filesystem inventories to classify storage tiers and emit budget-aware archival manifests, all in bounded memory. → Read the write-up · Code

OpsPilot — local-first workflow agent YAML packs, memory, guarded execution, and a contracts-first design. → Code

Hackathons and applied AI

Captain Whiskers — autonomous on-chain trading agent · LabLab AI Trading Agents Variational-quantum portfolio optimization + BFT verification + post-quantum signatures in one agent. → Read the write-up · Code

legal-document-intelligence — agentic RAG for diligence LangGraph + Qdrant + vLLM (AMD MI300X) for property and M&A document review, built around retrieval faithfulness. → Read the write-up · Code

AI Ethics Coach — Chrome extension (MV3) Selected text through Gemini, action-oriented flags, selection bubble + modal + side panel. → Code

Writing

The Abstraction Dictionary — prompt-pattern book with figures and dual PDF exports. → Repo

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Timeline — projects and certifications

A single chronological view. Projects in bold; certifications in italics.

2026

• RegimeFactorZoo — ML factor-model pipeline begun; public-data rebuild after the WRDS summer-access pivot. (ongoing)
• Quantum computing research — joined Prof. Yuxi Hong's lab (April); working through Sutor, Wong, and Nielsen-Chuang. (ongoing)
• IBM Generative AI Engineering Professional Certificate — Coursera.
• Captain Whiskers — LabLab AI Trading Agents hackathon: quantum portfolio optimization + BFT + post-quantum signatures.
• legal-document-intelligence — agentic RAG diligence pipeline.
• Head of Technology, IU Data Science Club — leading biweekly technical workshops.

2025

• qhpc_cache — empirical cache-characterization study of finance kernels on BigRed200 (continued into 2026).
• disk-archival-toolkit — bounded-memory filesystem audit and archival manifest generator.
• AI Ethics Coach — MV3 Chrome extension shipped.
• Fundamentals of Quantitative Modeling — Wharton Online (Coursera).
• Financial Markets — Yale (Coursera).

Earlier

• Kary & Mark — advertising venture past $10K revenue (Savannah, GA).
• The Abstraction Dictionary — prompt-pattern book project.

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Longer narratives live in the blog. Weekly motion is on the timeline.