Projects & Work
The Daily Benji
Email-first personal finance tool | Co-Founder
Parse bank alert emails to track spending patterns—no app required.
- Built email parsing system in Ruby on Rails with custom regex patterns for major financial institutions (Chase, Bank of America, Wells Fargo)
- Developed full-stack platform: PostgreSQL database, RESTful API, user management dashboard, automated email delivery
- Currently finishing product and onboarding beta users
Crypto & NFT Trading
$300 → $60,000 in 12 months (200x return)
- Executed thousands of trades; $1.9M+ total volume
- Managed capital across 100+ wallets on multiple blockchain networks
Strategies:
- Whale tracking via Nansen analytics to identify and front-run large wallet movements
- Copy trading consistently profitable wallets
- Automated trading bots
- Pattern recognition to exploit recurring market cycles
Ekanta Wealth Advisors
Multi-family office | Summer Analyst
- Constructed 5 risk-adjusted model portfolios using Koyfin and Reuters Eikon
- Distributed twice-daily market updates covering price levels, news, and firm holdings
- Analyzed redundancies across multi-account bond portfolios; recommended consolidation strategies
- Evaluated fund compositions for client risk rating compliance
- Participated in fund manager pitches for private equity, private credit, and real estate opportunities
Pericles Capital
Student-run research group | Co-Founder
Exploring inefficient markets through prediction markets and IoT-based edges.
- Research-focused approach: investigate many ideas, vault promising ones, iterate with speed
- Currently in research phase building infrastructure before deploying capital
Fungal Microclimate Regulator
IoT environmental control system | Personal Project
Automated climate control for growing Lion's Mane and King Oyster mushrooms.
- ESP32 microcontroller running custom C++ firmware
- Real-time sensor polling for temperature, humidity, and CO₂
- PID loops for humidity regulation
- Automated exhaust fan based on CO₂ thresholds (800–1500 PPM for Lion's Mane, 600–800 PPM for King Oyster)
- OLED display for live readings
- ThingSpeak telemetry integration
- GitHub Pages dashboard for remote monitoring
Stack: ESP32 · C++ · ThingSpeak API · GitHub Pages
GitHub repo → · Live dashboard →Life Studio
Mobile app development studio | Co-Founder
Ignis — Wildfire safety app
- Integrated NASA wildfire API with AI-driven risk prediction for real-time alerts
- Built in Swift and Python
- Won US Congressional App Challenge
Erra & Cogna — Early-stage apps for SAT preparation and digital wellness (not launched)
Reselling
Secondary market arbitrage
$20K+ revenue | 180+ transactions
- Flipped limited-edition shoes, clothing, collectibles, and restaurant reservations
- Platforms: eBay, StockX, and others
- 100% positive seller rating
- Managed inventory, shipping, and pricing strategy based on market trends