AWS - DMS Platform team

BitGo is a crypto custody, trading, and finance company based in Palo Alto. Worked on the Coins Team, which is responsible for our coin offerings. Built new features for coins across the whole stack, integrated new coins and tokens, and built internal tooling to better track errors related to coin offerings

Working as a consultant and a software developer in the Blockchain practice under IBM Global Business Services.

Clients + Projects:

Alpaca is a venture-backed, fintech startup that offers commission-free algorithmic trading. Designed and implemented an open-source robo advisor in Python. Collected historical market data, created an optimal frontier for investment portfolio allocation with backtesting tools (Quantopian API and Zipline). Packaged and available as a Docker container. Wrote several well received articles on the online publication HackerNoon. Internship was extended through the school year to co-found AlpacaEDU, a community for student traders that fosters peer-to-peer learning. Organized campus ambassador structure, Slack, Subreddit, and a Medium Publication to encourage communication.

Invitation-only research opportunity for select students. Designed and implemented a program to model adinkras - single-dimensional representations of multi-dimensional objects - on a team led by Dr. Stefan Mendez-Diez. Group theory calculations in GAP, adinkra graph visualizations in Python using PyGraphViz and MatplotLib. Used SQLite to store graph information to speed construction for large graphs.