Dinner at home meant commodity cycles and why the Nifty moved that day. So I never really sat down to learn markets — I was already inside one before I knew that's what it was.
These days that mostly turns into code. Signal platforms, pricing engines, small tools I wanted to exist. And when I need to stop looking at screens, black and white film in the old city back home.
I study financial engineering at NYU and build small tools for looking at markets.
Grew up in Ahmedabad, live in Brooklyn now. Mostly I make the unglamorous kind of thing — a signal platform running on free public data, a pricing engine written from scratch just to be sure I actually understood it.
And I shoot black and white film, which has nothing to do with any of that. Except that it's the same instinct.
Cross-currency pricing across Coinbase and Kraken through the March 2023 SVB crisis. IAQF Student Competition — winner.
A signal platform for Indian equities, built on free public data.
A live subway board for the wall.