Education


Monash University | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Bachelor of Commerce and Science in Econometrics, Mathematics and Computational Science

  • Awarded with summer and winter vacation research scholarships
  • First place in an IMC algorithmic trading competition

Experience


Teaching Associate

Monash University
  • Assisted struggling students by providing individualised explanations during workshops, ensuring they understood and could apply the concepts taught by the lecturer
  • Collaborated with other TA's to teach applied classes providing students with personalised support to drive them to gain the most out of the unit

Research Scholarships

Monash University Jul 2024 - Dr. Buser Say
Python, SCIP, Constraint Programming
  • Developed SCIPPlan+, an automated planner for discrete and continuous time planning problems with stochastic domains
  • Researched the applications and performance of SCIPPlan+ over a variety of domains
Nov 2023 - Feb 2024 - Dr. Buser Say
Python, SCIP, Constraint Programming
  • Refactored and extended SCIPPlan an automated planner for continuous time sequential planning problems over non-linear domains
  • Assessed the performance of SCIPPlan in identifying optimal plans by formulating diverse problems with non-linear constraints
  • Successfully derived feasible optimal solutions for a novel problem within a reasonable time frame
Jul 2023 - Dr. Buser Say
Python, Cplex, Gurobi, Seaborn, MILP
  • Investigated various linear programming constraint formulations based on neural network transition functions
  • Benchmarked and presented different solvers and formulations finding results of over 2x decrease in solve time

Prison Chaplaincy and Community Outreach

Aleph Institute and Merkos L'Inyonei Chinuch
  • Visited prisons to converse with struggling inmates, providing them with patience, compassion, care and empathy

Projects


Finance API

Python, FastAPI, PyTest, BeautifulSoup
  • Designed, implemented and hosted using serverless hosting an API which fetches stock information, financial statements and currently listed options
  • Utilising multithreading, scraped statements from multiple tables leading to up to a 5x increase in speed
  • Constructed a Google Sheets add on to pull data into the spreadsheet, being used for over $15,000 in investments
  • Implemented unit testing using pytest in order to provide stability and reliability on future features and versions

Stock Paper Trader

Python, Flask, SQLAlchemy, PostgreSQL, HTML, CSS, Bootstrap
  • Built a CRUD app which allows users to make imitation stock transactions to aid in investing education
  • Hashed user passwords on registration in order to prevent malicious actors from accessing the private data
  • Utilised my "Finance API" to retrieve financial data to display and create stock sales and purchases

Technical Skills

Languages: Python, R, C/C++17, Javascript, SQL, HTML/CSS
Frameworks: Flask, FastAPI, PyTest, Vue3, Nuxt3, JUCE
Developer Tools: Git, RStudio, Linux, Vercel, GCP
Libraries: BeautifulSoup, Pandas, Matplotlib/Seaborn, Numpy/Scipy, SQLAlchemy, Boostrap, Tidyverse, Fable, Cplex, Gurobi, SCIP
Academic Concepts: Analysis, Linear Algebra, Probability, Optimisation and OR, Graph Theory