Investment operations, risk analytics, and applied AI.
Fifteen years building investment operations infrastructure for institutional capital across endowments, foundations, and hedge funds — now shipping AI-driven workflows that let one person do what used to take a team.
The investment-ops bench of 2031 looks nothing like the one of 2021. The conductor is one person; the orchestra is software. Notes on what changes — and what doesn't.
“No man is better than a machine, and no machine is better than a man with a machine.”
— Paul Tudor Jones, as quoted in The Wall Street Journal, August 17, 2016
“I strongly believe this quote will define our remaining lifetimes.” — Varun Agarwal, posted to LinkedIn · 9 years ago
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Six production-style dashboards covering the operational backbone of a foundation investment office: deal flow, performance attribution, public & private reconciliation, alt-asset document ingestion, and sign-off controls. Every filter, sort, and drill-down is wired up.
Detailed work history across Harvard Management, Johns Hopkins, UBC IM, and The Nature Conservancy. Now building AI-driven workflows on Claude.
The narrative version of the resume — Persepolis-style B&W comic tracing the journey from a 2006 neural-network thesis at PEC University to a fevered week in March 2025 that re-opened a door I'd shelved for almost two decades. Same password as the resume.
AI-built CRM for an investment office — runs locally, every claim cites a source PDF. Claude API + FastAPI + SQLite + FTS5. The headline “+1” AI project of 6+1.