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EDUCATION
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RICE UNIVERSITY (2022-2025)Houston, Texas
Major in Computer Science (BA); Minor in StatisticsMay 2025 (Graduated 1 year early)
Additional Relevant Coursework: Quantitative Risk Management; Stochastic Models; Market Models;
Foundational Artificial Intelligence & Cybernetics; Linear Algebra; Multivariable Calculus; Differential Equations
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WORK EXPERIENCE
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WHYAI TECHNOLOGIES, INC. (yAIhq.com)New York, New York Chief Technology OfficerMay 2026 - Aug 2026
• Grew revenue from $0 to $40K ARR, with software adopted by 75 enterprise users (40 daily active).
• Raised a six-figure funding round.
• Led a team of 4 spanning engineering and go-to-market as CTO.
• Owned and managed enterprise-grade infrastructure across AWS Bedrock and Azure.
FounderMar 2025 - May 2025
• Founded and built Radar entirely solo, an AI-powered market intelligence platform for VC and PE, now deployed at enterprise scale. Built on Next.js, Python, Exa, PostgreSQL, Qdrant.
• Created a rich database of millions of companies and people, continuously updated through automated scraping pipelines.
• Engineered a cutting-edge search layer using LLMs and vector search to surface the most relevant results for any investment mandate.
• Built an automated monitoring engine that surfaces relevant developments to customers using rich firm context (investment thesis, portfolio, preferred stages, etc.).
MAIN CAPITAL PARTNERS (leading private equity firm in Europe)The Hague, The Netherlands
Software EngineeringMay 2023 - Jul 2023, May 2024 - Jul 2024
• Built a Python OCR application that converts PDFs into a standardized, database-ready format, eliminating manual data entry.
• Built a multi-label classification model that predicts company sectors from scraped website text, improving filtering and fixing misclassifications in their database.
• Built a t-SNE-based similarity engine that ranks all database companies against an input company, accelerating analysts' search for acquisition targets.
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PROJECTS
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• Agentic fundamental analysis through a spreadsheet workspace, where agents use verified SEC data on any publicly listed company to automate financial modeling. Built a web-based sheets engine from scratch. Rapidly unlocks intrinsic value and guides fundamental investors.
• AI-powered web interface manipulation platform enabling real-time DOM editing and natural language CSS/HTML modifications. Allows users to design their frontend without having to code, agents will do it for them.
DYNASTAI (Hackathon winner; GitHub)May 2025 • Adaptive reinforcement learning environment for medieval kingdom management, featuring a dynamic reward system that evolves based on how the player plays the game.
OPTIONS IMPLIED VOLATILITY SURFACE GENERATORFeb 2025
• 3D IV Surface generator that takes a stock ticker as input. The graph has strike price on the x-axis, DTE on the y-axis, and IV on the z-axis. Allows for configuration of the option type, a minimum & maximum strike, and if strike or moneyness is on the x-axis.
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ADDITIONAL
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Technical Skills: Experienced with Python, Next.js, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Docker;
Intermediate in R, Java, Go, Excel; Limited experience with C, C++, Ruby
Languages: Fluent in English, Dutch; Intermediate in Italian, Japanese
Hobbies & Interests: Chess, rock climbing, reading, hiking