Abstract Ventures
Seed-focused fund in San Francisco. Lead software development of a proprietary data platform.
About
Partner at Abstract Ventures where I bring data-driven decision making to the archaic venture capital stack. Architect and engineer of a proprietary altenative data solution. Previous stops include VC, investment banking and as technical co-founder of a fintech startup.
Work
Core Innovation Capital
Seed and Series A investments focused on financial innovation. On a mission to create upward mobility by saving people time and money.
Tellur.io
No-code solution for personal finance. Connected users to their finances through user-generated trigger & action workflows.
Vegas Hotel Hunt
Niche travel aggregator for Las Vegas. Dorm room project that kept going for 10 years. Found an edge combining UGC-driven discovery with best-in-class scraping and savvy longtail SEO.
Raymond James
Investment banking in the Financial Institutions Group during the financial crisis. M&A, capital raising and restructuring transactions. Lots of VBA.
Kellogg School of Management
Four years (undergrad) with the Management and Organizations Department at Kellogg. Among many research-assisting roles, led full stack development of online experiments.
Projects
Always exploring the new thing through code.
Flam AI
Your AI DJ. Uses OpenAI to generate and load prompt-driven playlists across music streaming services. (React Native, Supabase, SST)
Ledgee
NLP chatbot for banking combining bank accounts (via Plaid) with voice intents. Cross-platform architecture supported Alexa, SMS and Messenger.
Cardcast
Bringing interactive gaming to the Chromecast. 250,000+ installs, 80k MAU. Large developer ecosystem used the game’s public API.
ngMaterialize
Web component library for Angular based on Material Design 1.
EmailOctopus Node SDK
Programmatic access to EmailOctopus. Dramatically reduced newsletter costs with AWS SES.
Blackjack Cast
Multiplayer game for Google Chromecast. Great for training basic strategy and counting/advantage play. (15,000+ users).
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