Work
Systems I've built and what changed because of them. Every number here was measured on the real product.
FinFAST.ai: faster retrieval and cheaper AI for an economic research platform
FinFAST.ai · 2024 to 2026
A research platform where analysts query large economic datasets and read AI-written daily reports. I made it fast, made its AI answers more accurate, and cut what the AI cost to run.
~1.5 s
Typical data retrieval, from ~10 s
A lead-routing backend that puts every enquiry in the CRM and in front of the right consultant
Education consultancy · May to Oct 2026
A Python backend that takes leads from WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram ads, website forms and CSV uploads, cleans them into one shape, assigns a consultant fairly, and writes them into Odoo, for two companies from one deployment.
Automatic, leave-aware
Consultant assignment, from Manual
Scrapers that turn university course catalogues into one clean dataset
Education data client · Aug 2026 to now
A scraping system that reads UK university course catalogues and extracts every course with its level, duration, fees, English-test scores and entry requirements into one consistent dataset, with the major university rankings collected alongside.
About 80
UK universities with scrapers so far
A real-time market-data pipeline for equity research
AIVI · 2025
An automated pipeline that collects and joins financial data for the top 500 Indian equities, feeding forecasting models and backtests used to inform trading strategies.
Top 500
Equities in the research universe
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