Projects

Financial tools, quantitative research, and experiments you can try.

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Hornet FX desk

A USD/MXN worksheet adapted from my trading-contest project. Edit trade rows, reprice the book, and inspect combined risk.

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Browser language model

A 30-million-parameter model running locally in your browser. An inference experiment, with a very small context and imperfect answers.

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Selected work

Implied Willow Tree for Derivatives

Quantitative research capstone
September 2025 – December 2025

A study of risk-neutral densities from 10Y Treasury futures options, with martingale and no-arbitrage constraints for a new objective function.

Python, numerical optimization, Treasury futures options

Project details
  • Extends the willow-tree idea from equity options toward a liquid interest-rate derivatives market.
  • Uses capital-markets information and discretized risk-neutral nodes to study path-dependent pricing.

High Frequency Trading Competition

University competition
March 2025 – May 2025

A second-place market-making strategy that used VWAP to predict trends and adapt order size.

Python, VWAP, SHIFT, FIX protocol, GitHub

Project details
  • Led the team, delegated backtesting and research, and kept the group aligned through meeting notes.
  • Built backtesting and algorithm components and acted as the point of contact for SHIFT and FIX issues.

Hornet Trading Contest

Class project
February 2025 – May 2025

A risk-engineering trading contest covering zero-coupon bonds, forwards, calls, and puts on USDMXN.

VBA, Bloomberg, bond and FX derivatives

Project details
  • Wrote VBA to calculate Delta, Gamma, USD and MXN Rho, and Vega for traded instruments.
  • Used current-events information from Bloomberg to anticipate a falling dollar and adjust delta exposure.

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NBA Defensive Impact Analysis

Personal project
July 2024 – August 2024

A data pipeline that cleaned gigabytes of API data, cached rate-limited requests, and moved analysis into SQL for Power BI.

Python, APIs, Pandas, SQL, MSSQL, Azure SQL, Power BI

Project details
  • Removed unnecessary columns and changed data types to improve memory use.
  • Added backoff and caching for repeated API collection, then synchronized SQL tables to Azure SQL.

NBA Reddit AI Chatbot

Personal project
December 2023 – January 2024

A chatbot over daily NBA subreddit posts and comments, tuned to understand community slang and nested discussion structure.

Python, LangChain, retrieval-augmented generation

Project details
  • Built a LangChain retrieval pipeline over the collected post and comment corpus.
  • Used prompt engineering to make answers preserve the source community's terminology and context.