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
dailybenji.com →

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
periclescapital.org →
Mushroom Tent

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