Education

Stevens Institute of Technology, School of Business

Hoboken, NJ

Master of Science, Financial Engineering

Expected: Dec 2025

GRE: 335/340

Awards & Honors:

  • Stevens Master’s Scholarship

Relevant Coursework:

Interest Rate Derivatives, Computational Methods, Risk Management, Pricing and Hedging, Portfolio Theory, Quantitative Hedge Fund Strategy

Rutgers University, School of Arts and Sciences

New Brunswick, NJ

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science

Jan 2024

Awards & Honors:

  • Rutgers Honors College
  • Trustee Scholarship
  • National Merit Scholarship

Relevant Coursework:

Data Science, Linear Algebra, Discrete Math, Data Structures, Design and Analysis of Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Architecture, Systems Programming, Internet Technology

Professional Experience

El Mashta LLC

New York, NY

AI Engineer

Jun 2025 - Present

  • Provisioned servers for general development workload, GPU inference, and GPU training, cutting $300/month in server costs
  • Set up development infrastructure to improve developer convenience, with declarative infrastructure as code through Terraform
  • Created and maintained organizational infrastructure for team communication and consistency in tool usage

Stevens Institute of Technology

Hoboken, NJ

Hanlon Financial Systems Team Lead

Sept 2024 - Present

  • Builds server infrastructure like virtual machines and software installation for distributed deep learning on H100 GPUs
  • Provides support for students and faculty using the lab during courses, resolving any technical issues as they arise
  • Assists in Hanlon Lab operations relating to hardware, software, and databases for professors in the finance departments

Cloudnosys, Inc

Atlanta, GA

DevSecOps Engineer

Jun 2023 - Sept 2024

  • Developed security control methods in JavaScript with the AWS SDK API for an auditing service on AWS cloud accounts
  • Exposed OS vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and malware that contained alert metadata from AWS documentation on them
  • Managed an AWS cloud account for the purposes of debugging signatures and configured it to test security flaw detections

Rutgers University

Newark, NJ

Application Developer Intern

Jun 2021 - Jun 2023

  • Developed an app to automate the submission and approval workflow of a form for course management using Power Apps
  • Oversaw meetings demonstrating technology to clients, responding to requests for changes, and explaining technology to lay users
  • Used scripting languages such as Shell, Python, and PowerShell in order to automate SQL database accesses and program workflows

Projects

Master’s Thesis on Implied Willow Tree for Interest Rate Derivatives

Jun 2025 - Present

MATLAB, Research

  • Dong et al. model the risk-neutral process by implying risk-neutral densities from equity options and transitioning between nodes
  • In theory, any liquid options market could imply a willow tree for pricing path-dependent derivatives on a risk-neutral process
  • My thesis work studies how this idea can be used to price exotic interest rate derivatives, with ideas from HJM and credit markets

High Frequency Trading Competition

Mar 2025 - May 2025

Python, SHIFT

  • Won second place by implementing a market making strategy, using VWAP to predict market trends and adjusting order size
  • Led the team and delegated tasks to my teammates, such as backtesting and research, and took notes during meetings for reference
  • Set up infrastructure on GitHub and acted as point of contact when IT issues arose related to a bug with SHIFT and Fix Protocol

Hornet Trading Contest

Feb 2025 - May 2025

Excel, VBA

  • Participated in a trading contest with other students in Risk Engineering class for bonds, forwards, calls, and puts on USDMXN
  • Wrote VBA code to calculate Greeks for each type of instrument traded: Delta, Gamma, Rho for both USD and MXN, and Vega
  • Used macro information from current events on Bloomberg to correctly predict a falling dollar and adjust my delta exposure

NBA Defensive Impact Analysis

Jul 2024 - Aug 2024

Python, Pandas

  • Cleaned gigabytes of raw data from an API to remove unnecessary columns and changed their types to fit better in memory
  • Created backoff infrastructure to call from the API repeatedly and accumulate data without hitting rate limits while caching it
  • Converted the analysis from Pandas dataframes to SQL tables, synced to an MSSQL Server on Azure SQL for use with Power BI

Hexyl - Terminal Hex Viewer

Sept 2022 - Dec 2023

Rust, GitHub

  • Rewrote the architecture, optimizing squeezing identical lines, removing bloated formatting machinery, and caching operations
  • Improved performance by creating a flamegraph of application usage and profiling functions that bottlenecked common usage
  • Maintained the repository over a long period of time by answering issues and fixing bugs that arose from my new architecture

Leadership & Extracurricular Experience

Rutgers Book Club

New Brunswick, NJ

Treasurer

Sept 2020 - May 2023

  • Secured $800 in additional funding in a meeting with the Rutgers Student Assembly by demonstrating how our number of members and our savings on our deal with Barnes & Noble made us a candidate for extra allocation after initial funding of $100

Skills

Technical Skills

Python JavaScript Git Linux Bash SQL AWS React Rust C++ C LLMs Azure Power Apps Office 365 Databricks

Certifications

AWS Solutions Architect AWS Developer Azure Fundamentals Databricks Data Engineer Associate