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