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TECHNICAL PROJECTS & RESEARCH PROTOTYPES
I'm available for defined-scope technical projects: research prototypes, market-data tooling, quantitative analysis systems, and automation workflows. Every engagement ends with working software, reproducible artifacts, and written limitations.
ENGAGEMENT FLOW — PROBLEM → BUILD → ARTIFACT.
SCOPE ALIGNMENT
THE PROBLEM, THE BUILD, THE DELIVERABLE
I scope engagements by deliverable rather than by hours. Each row below maps a common client problem to the system that addresses it and the artifact you receive at handover.
YOU HAVE
Market question without a harness
WHAT I BUILD
Deterministic research engine + reproducible artifacts
WHAT YOU GET
A result that regenerates byte-identically, plus its limitations
YOU HAVE
Vendor and internal data that disagrees with itself
WHAT I BUILD
Point-in-time safe ingestion, validation and replay
WHAT YOU GET
One canonical model, with the failure modes quarantined and visible
YOU HAVE
A strategy that looks good and cannot be trusted
WHAT I BUILD
Adversarial tests, cost modelling and structural risk gates
WHAT YOU GET
An honest read on what the strategy actually does
YOU HAVE
Cost or financial data at volume
WHAT I BUILD
High-throughput, low-dependency processing
WHAT YOU GET
A published benchmark with its methodology attached
ENGAGEMENT AREAS
These are the areas where I can take work end to end — each one backed by systems I have already built and used in practice.
QUANT RESEARCH
Falsifiable market hypotheses tested with deterministic experiments and published limitations.
DATA INFRASTRUCTURE
Market-data and financial-data pipelines engineered for exactness, throughput and auditability.
TRADING SYSTEMS
Multi-timeframe systematic architectures with structural risk controls end to end.
BACKTESTING
Deterministic simulation harnesses with explicit cost modelling and reproducible artifacts.
RESEARCH AUTOMATION
Governance workflows that turn exploratory research into verifiable, promotable evidence.
PERFORMANCE ENGINEERING
Low-latency, high-throughput systems work where measurement context ships with the number.
STARTING POINT
DESCRIBE THE QUESTION
What are you trying to find out, and what would count as an answer? If that second half is unclear, that is the first thing we work on.
DESCRIBE THE DATA
What exists, where it lives, and what state it is in. Data reality usually determines the shape of the project.
AGREE THE EVIDENCE
We decide in advance what artifact would prove the work succeeded. This is fixed before anything is built.
BUILD AND HAND OVER
You get the system, the reproducible artifact, the published benchmark or test result, and the written limitations.
TOOLS I USE
The same instruments that power the research — available as part of the engagement.
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