Markets & probability
This is where the maker habit started. On January 12, 2021 I committed a Python bot that traded stocks through Robinhood, and I never really stopped. It’s grown into something genuinely overbuilt — a system where four analysts argue fundamentals, sentiment, news, and technicals, a bull and a bear debate it out, and a risk manager gets veto power before anything executes. It trades on paper. I’m less interested in the money than in whether I can build a thing that reasons about a decision the way a careful person would. (There’s a lottery-probability tool in here too, with a clear-eyed note that the draws are random.)
Mathematics
I have a research platform quietly attacking the Beal Conjecture — an unsolved number-theory problem with a million-dollar prize attached. It runs a parallel search for counterexamples and, on the other track, tries to build a formal proof in Lean 4. I don’t expect to win the million dollars. I like the problem because it’s almost certainly out of reach and I want to see how far I get anyway.
Genealogy
I built a privacy-first DNA pipeline that parses raw exports from the consumer testing services and generates a report entirely on-device — nothing uploaded, nothing phoned home. I find the engineering of personal genomics more interesting than any single result it spits out about me.
Dream engineering
The strangest one. Svapna is a tool I’m building around targeted memory reactivation — the idea that you can nudge what the sleeping brain rehearses. It is exactly as odd as it sounds, and that’s most of the appeal.
Brakes, still
The origin story has a habit of resurfacing. Between two enterprise consulting jobs I ran a small mobile-mechanic operation on the side — diagnostics and brake jobs in people’s driveways, booked through Calendly. “From brakes to bytes” was supposed to be a one-way trip. It wasn’t.
Houston
Home. I’m a Houston local, and a fair amount of who I am is downstream of this city — so I keep an eye on what it’s doing.