About
I explain hard things about money.
Accounting rules, unit economics, valuation, derivatives, and what all of that looks like once it moves onchain. Plus whatever else I happen to be pulling apart: lap times, a fertility register, the software I spend all day inside. Not everything worth writing down is work.
I am an Equity Research Associate at Rosenblatt Securities in New York, supporting the FinTech and Digital Assets coverage: the firms, protocols and plumbing the sector is being built on. I came to markets from mathematics and data, and I am most useful where the analysis needs something built first: a dataset, a model, or a tool that makes the work faster.
This site is where I write about everything else.Disclosure: not investment advice What I'm building, what I'm reading, and what I haven't worked out yet.
I came at this from the other side. Before markets it was Bayesian inference, ensemble methods and statistical modelling, through a research assistantship in Boston University's Department of Computer Science, systematic strategies, portfolio construction. That is still the toolkit; the subject just changed. A fair amount of what goes here is side quests: things I'm learning in public, the method pointed at Formula 1 telemetry or an IVF register. That is the point of having my own site rather than only a byline.
The detail
The full version of each, rather than a wall of bullets here.
- Experience Equity research, and before that systematic strategy work at Boston University. 6 roles →
- Education Boston University, Chennai Mathematical Institute, CFA Level I, Series 7 and 63, and the courses I took for fun. 14 courses →
- Research Papers and articles from my time at Boston University. 6 papers →
Teaching
For four years I taught maths and physics to students preparing for the International Junior Science Olympiad, and I have taught introductory options and financial mathematics at STEMS. Teaching is the fastest way I know to find out whether you actually understand something, and it is the part of all this I am most enthusiastic about.