I bridge the gap between model breakthroughs and institutional deployment. I translate what the best models can do into strategies that institutions can actually deploy, and I'm always working to understand both sides more deeply.
Columbia MBA/MS. Built and scaled Claude's NYC builder ecosystem from 0 to 1,000+ members. Leading the AI Club and AI Startup Challenge, and founded BRAIN NYC—a startup network tackling the hardest business challenges with frontier AI.
AI strategist, product manager, and startup community builder. Shipped agentic workflows as a Manus AI Fellow and co-founded AI-native fintech startup (acquired by a major insurance firm). Mentor at CFA Society New York.
Built a LightRAG pipeline that transforms 4,000+ academic papers into a queryable graph vector database, surfacing contrarian investment strategies with 2.4x more comprehensive responses than naive RAG.
A 12-week product strategy engagement with CNN: diagnosed why engaged readers leak attention to Substack, podcasts, and X during breaking stories, then designed a credentialed expert reaction layer and stage-gated rollout endorsed by senior product leadership.
A single-page interactive web app covering causal inference from potential outcomes to Double ML, with canvas visualizations, KaTeX formulas, and a full method comparison framework.
Finance spent 20 years industrializing its data and almost no time on its knowledge. Then AI changed the economics overnight. Drawing on my years as a practitioner, here is my framework.
Agentic memory is a harder problem than it looks. Here's what I learned building a memory-enabled agent around GitHub and Claude Code.
People keep asking what products I use. The answer is boring; the principles behind them aren't. A pairing of my daily routine with the dermatology and photobiology research that justifies each step.
I spent a weekend reading two Claude Code source trees side by side, to find what changed and hasn't across 13 months of the most successful AI product.
Always learning, always building with AI. If you're doing the same, I'd love to connect.