Projects & Work
The Daily Benji
Your spending, delivered daily. No app required.
Email-first personal finance tool that sends one email every morning with all your transactions. Parse bank alert emails to track spending patterns—no app, no login, just clarity.
- 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
- Email-first approach: no app required, works entirely through daily email summaries
Pericles Capital
Markets Too Small For Big Funds
Independent, student-run quantitative research lab focused on finding alpha in niche markets often overlooked by larger funds. We blend startup culture and quantitative finance — moving fast, iterating constantly, and applying rigorous research to markets others overlook.
- Developed venture accelerator inspired model for rapid strategy ideation, backtesting, and deployment
- Built automated insider trading signal system exploiting information lag in SEC Form 4 filings
- Designing IoT sensor network using Raspberry Pi hardware to capture real-time agricultural data for commodity futures forecasting (lobster harvests, orange juice)
Finance & Trading
Crypto & NFT Trading
- Executed thousands of trades across multiple blockchain networks
- Managed capital across 100+ wallets on Ethereum, Solana, and other chains
Strategies:
- Whale tracking via Nansen analytics to identify and front-run large wallet movements
- Copy trading consistently profitable wallets
- Automated trading bots for executing high-frequency trades
- Pattern recognition to exploit recurring market cycles
Reselling
Secondary market arbitrage
- Flipped limited-edition shoes, clothing, collectibles, and restaurant reservations
- Platforms: eBay, StockX, and others
- 100% positive seller rating maintained across all platforms
- Managed inventory, shipping, and pricing strategy based on market trends
Professional Experience
Ekanta Wealth Advisors
Multi-family office | Summer Analyst | Summer 2025
- 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
Technical Projects
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
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 for iOS platform
- Won US Congressional App Challenge
Erra & Cogna — Early-stage apps for SAT preparation and digital wellness (not launched)