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Built a decentralized exchange with over 25 million USD in liquidity. Product was acquired.

San Francisco, California, US

Building the data platform to power Heap's analytics engine

New York, NY, US

Unlocking access to education through outcome based financing

New York, NY, US

• Participated in 3-month computer science educational program to accelerate growth of software engineering skills
• Built a functioning blockchain in Python based on the Bitcoin model incorporating a secure object-orientated blockchain data structure, peer-to-peer networking protocol with the twisted framework, and POW of consensus
• Tested and debugged the blockchain project utilizing Docker containers to run multiple peers on the same machine
• Created a web application to allow program alumni to view each other’s locations utilizing React, Node.js, and Sequelize

San Francisco, California, US

• Coordinated research and business development efforts in the blockchain space for FinTech focused investment bank with an M&A and capital raise advisory practice conducting transactions in the $50 million to $4 billion.
• Authored a report on the blockchain ecosystem to promote the bank as a thought leader in the space
• Met with prominent companies in the space, discussed financial options, and identified opportunities to work together

Pittsburgh, PA, US

• Assisted Professor Brian Kovak with economics research, preparing data for analysis, and building research systems
• Constructed algorithm for matching user-typed Mexican places to official municipalities with Python and pandas to identify the casual effect of the US 2008 housing crisis on Mexico through geographic migration patterns
• Designed a Python html parser to auto generate a Stata program in order to aggregate variables from a complicated storage architecture of German time series data about guest workers to estimate a structural model of.
• Built concordance with Python and Stata for harmonizing Portuguese production data with Chinese export data in order to identify an alternative mechanism for the effect of the Chinese export boom on the Portuguese.
• Visualized and presented stylized facts about the economic relationship between Canada and China using Stata
• Theorized and solved discrete choice probability models for migrants based on wages and social value of a location

Berkeley, CA, US

Worked with Professor Ulrike Malmendier on a behavioral finance project to identify the effect of past market experience on risk preferences in financial institutions

San Francisco, California, US

Lifescience Group

Washington, DC, US

- Manage day to day operation of club including budget, events, and logitistics- Consult various Israeli start-ups transitioning to the American marketplace- Market research for Genoox, an Israeli genetics cloud computing platform- Organize weekly lectures from start-up industry leaders

Tel Aviv, IL

- Interned at seed stage venture fund- Created competitive analysis of potential start-ups in a variety of fields- Participated in deal flow and due diligence process- Consulted portfolio companies- Interviewed startups at pitch meetings

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Economics

European Studies