About
Finn Clancy builds, trades, teaches
Business and computer science at Trinity College Dublin. I care about hard problems, markets, and tools that make people more effective. This page is an outline: jump to the timeline, open a project write-up, or read the full work history in one place.
Snapshot
- Business and Computer Science at Trinity College Dublin — on track for First Class Honours (4.0 GPA). CV & official transcript
- Shipped multiple Chrome extensions (highlights, focus, X feed in PiP, in-browser LLM side panel).
- Built Sruth, a public macro dashboard (flows, yields, FX, AI daily brief).
- Archive Capital — automated tools: data pipelines, charts, client-form workflows on the internal research stack.
- Working on HyperYield — limit orders on Hyperliquid while collateral keeps earning on HyperLend.
- Contributed to Talos with Empyreal (TIP portal, governance UX).
- Teaching & community: code mentor (STEM access), Chainlink Labs representative, past roles in student societies and peer mentoring.
- Internships
- SIG — Equity analyst (Jun 2026). Confidential work under NDA — rigorous, quantitative, extremely beneficial. write-up
- EY — AI & Data intern (Jun 2026). LLM adaptation for finance: SEC ingestion, RAG, LoRA, DPO, eval on Apple Silicon. write-up
- Positive Equity — Trading intern (2025). Simulated European futures, order flow / DOM, proprietary research, daily strategy review with the desk. write-up
- Elkstone — Summer analyst (2024). Rotations across real estate, venture, investing, and sales. write-up
- Empyreal / Talos — Full-stack open-source (2025). TIP Portal on talos.is. write-up
- Trinity Student Managed Fund — macro and allocation work (investment analyst → macro analyst), alongside the internship track above.
Timeline
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Equity Analyst — SIG
Susquehanna International Group — confidential work under NDA. Rigorous, quantitative internship. write-up
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AI & Data Intern — EY
LLM adaptation for finance — finished 19 Jun. SEC EDGAR, RAG, LoRA, DPO, eval on Apple Silicon. write-up
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Archive Capital
Automated tools — data pipelines, charts, and client-form workflows on the internal research stack.
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Code Mentor — Trinity College Dublin
Guide students through collaborative coding; support gender balance and STEM access.
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Representative — Chainlink Labs
Education, events, and community around Chainlink.
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Trading Intern — Positive Equity
Simulated European futures, DOM/order flow, proprietary research, daily review. write-up
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Empyreal — Talos
TIP Portal on talos.is — governance UX with LLM-assisted proposals. write-up
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Full Stack Engineer — PolicyPal AI
React / Vite UI, ChatGPT integration, performance work.
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Co-Founder & Deputy Head of Quant — Trinity SMF Quant Division
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Student Mentor — S2S, Trinity
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Trinity Student Managed Fund — Investment Analyst, then Macro Analyst
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Summer Analyst — Elkstone
Rotations across real estate, venture, investing, and sales. write-up
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Campus Ambassador — XRP Ledger Community
Earlier: hospitality and ops in Ireland and the US (kitchen, line cook, food production, real-estate licensing study). Full detail in the work write-up.
Projects & products
Each link opens a longer note (same reader shell as Press, but normal scrolling). Summaries below are the short version.
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SIG — Equity Analyst
Equity analyst internship at Susquehanna International Group. Confidential work under NDA — rigorous, quantitative, and one of the best learning experiences I have had.
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EY — AI & Data Intern
End-to-end pipeline adapting TinyLlama to financial SEC filings — ingestion, RAG, LoRA fine-tuning, DPO alignment, and evaluation on Apple Silicon.
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Highlighter
Chrome extension to highlight any page in custom colours, organise quotes in folders with comments, draw on pages, and share a clean reader link.
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HyperYield
Trading terminal concept: place long/short limits on Hyperliquid while the same margin keeps earning on HyperLend until the order fills.
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Browser Agent
Chrome side panel with GPT / Gemini: paste page text, take notes while reading or watching video, proofread drafts without opening a new tab.
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Study Guard
Redirects distracting sites until the URLs you care about (study, LLM tools, etc.) are the only ones that load — fully local.
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X PiP Feed
Chrome extension: live X Following feed in a floating PiP-style window or Chrome side panel, with optional translation.
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Sruth
Sruth.app tracks 140+ macro series (FRED, Yahoo): yields, spreads, FX, liquidity, growth, labour, inflation — hourly data plus a 5am UTC AI brief.
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imsg2spot
Python / PyPI CLI: scan an iMessage group for Spotify links and materialise a playlist — full-disk access + pipx install.
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Talos & the TIP Portal
Open-source Talos (Offchain Labs / Arbitrum orbit): I integrated a TIP Portal into talos.is so anyone can draft Talos Improvement Proposals with LLM help and land a GitHub PR via OAuth.
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ADAPT Centre — Research Intern
Research at the ADAPT Centre with Dr. Hitesh Tewari — applying threshold cryptography to central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) on the XRP Ledger (XRPL).
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dev-prompts
VS Code extension plus open prompts repo — search topics, multi-select folders/files, sync ./prompts, import entire trees.
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finnslib
Python package to summarise a function, file, or whole repo tree for LLM prompts — cheap gpt-4o-mini passes, CLI included.
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project-structure-tree
VS Code extension that drops project_structure.txt at the repo root — paste straight into a system prompt.
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Empyreal — Talos
Summer 2025 with Empyreal on Talos — protocol PRs, then owning the TIP Portal integration so anyone can draft proposals with LLM help and land a GitHub PR.
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Positive Equity — Trading Intern
Trading intern on simulated European index futures — order flow, DOM microstructure, Eurex research, and daily review with the desk.
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Elkstone — Summer Analyst
Summer analyst rotating across real estate, venture, investing, and sales — market research, analysis, and investor-facing materials.
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Archive Capital
Building automated tools with the team: data pipelines, charts, and client-form automation, on top of the wider UCITS / funds research stack. Read the short overview →
Work experience
One page with roles, bullets, and context — consolidated from my CV and LinkedIn.
Open full work historyEssays & elsewhere
- Press / Essays — longer-form pieces (e.g. technology, inequality, markets).
- LinkedIn — launch posts, market threads, and shorter notes (stablecoins, Hyperliquid v. retail brokers, Web 4 framing, and similar).
- X — current thinking and shares.