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Education, internships, work, societies, and jobs

Finn Clancy ·

Summary

I have split time between building products, markets work, blockchain infrastructure education, student leadership, and earlier jobs that taught throughput under pressure.

Education

  • Trinity College Dublin — Business & Computer Science; First Class Honours / 1.1 trajectory.
  • NYU — accepted to transfer into Mathematics & Computer Science starting Fall 2025. I did not go because I could not finance the roughly $96k/year cost of attendance.
  • Certifications listed on my home island: CS50, Stanford Supervised ML, Wharton Quantitative Modeling, Columbia Financial Engineering.

Work

Archive Capital

Present

Building automated tools with the team: data pipelines for ingesting, cleaning, and refreshing fund data; graphs and dashboards for internal research and review; and automation for client forms so repeatable workflows stay out of ad hoc spreadsheets. The stack spans Next.js apps, Python pipelines, scheduled jobs, canonical data, and generated outputs. Public overview: archive-capital.

Talos — Full Stack Open-Source Work

Summer 2025

Worked on Talos, an open-source agentic protocol incubated by Offchain Labs, the creators of Arbitrum. Talos gives an AI agent access to smart contracts while keeping protocol upgrades governed by humans through Talos Improvement Proposals (TIPs).

  • Early contributions included async function work, docs, dev tooling, caching, system prompt updates, and smaller protocol PRs.
  • Built and integrated the TIP Portal into talos.is after discussion with the lead developer at Empyreal.
  • Built a create flow where users sign in with X OAuth, draft a TIP with help from a Talos-tuned LLM, accept/edit/reject interactive suggestions, compare against examples, and submit.
  • On submit, a GitHub bot creates the PR, and a GitHub Action registers the unimplemented Open TIP in the database.
  • Built a TIP feed for Open and Implemented proposals, with links to GitHub and chat-style questions about proposal authorship, status, and implementation likelihood.
  • The goal was to abstract away GitHub and protocol complexity so non-technical contributors could still participate in governance.

Representative — Chainlink Labs

Mar 2024 – Present · Part-time · Hybrid · Dublin

  • Develop educational content explaining blockchain infrastructure, smart contracts, the oracle problem, and why secure external data matters for on-chain applications.
  • Use Oracles / Chainlink as the concrete example for how blockchains connect to prices, events, APIs, reserves, randomness, and cross-chain systems.
  • Organise and host IRL meetups, events, and conferences for students and builders interested in blockchain technology.
  • Work with cross-functional teammates on community growth, technical education, and adoption narratives.

Code Mentor — Trinity College Dublin

Sep 2025 – Present · Part-time · Dublin

Guide students through collaborative coding; support gender balance and STEM access; help simplify technical concepts so students build confidence in computer science.

PolicyPal AI — Full Stack Project

Jan 2025 – Jun 2025 · College module

PolicyPal was part of a college module rather than a standalone job.

  • Shipped React + Vite interfaces.
  • Integrated ChatGPT APIs for product-facing flows.
  • Built modular components and worked on bundle / lazy-load performance tuning.

Internships

Trading Intern — Positive Equity

Jun 2025 · Internship · Hybrid · Dublin

  • Traded simulated European index futures (FDXM, Bund, FBTP) with attention to order flow and DOM microstructure.
  • Built a proprietary research thread on Eurex inefficiencies using contract specs, macro catalysts, and correlation stacks.
  • Reviewed daily P&L, time-in-trade, and win/loss distributions; collaborated on backtests, indicators, and risk framing with senior traders and interns.

Summer Analyst — Elkstone

Jun 2024 – Aug 2024 · Internship · Dublin · On-site

  • Rotated across real estate, venture, investing, and sales teams.
  • Supported market research, financial analysis, client sourcing, and investor-facing decks for live mandates.

College Societies

Trinity Student Managed Fund — Macro Analyst

Sep 2024 – Jun 2025 · Part-time

  • Prepared macro briefs for investment committee meetings; tracked global data prints, central bank communication, and forward guidance shifts.
  • Worked with sector analysts to connect macro narrative to bottom-up investment views.

Trinity Student Managed Fund — Investment Analyst

Sep 2023 – Oct 2024

  • Researched technology hardware companies, including valuation work and variant views.
  • Prepared investment memos and pitched selected businesses to the Chief Investment Officer track.

Trinity SMF Quant Division — Co-Founder & Deputy Head of Quant

Oct 2024 – Sep 2025 · Part-time · Hybrid

  • Helped run quant tournament and strategy work inside the Trinity Student Managed Fund.
  • Coordinated relationships with peer universities for collaboration.
  • Supported members trying to break into quant and trading paths.
  • Managed social presence and outward storytelling for the division.

Student Mentor — S2S, Trinity College Dublin

Sep 2024 – Aug 2025 · Part-time

  • Mentored students navigating personal and academic hurdles.
  • Organised social events so mentees actually knew each other.
  • Supported first-year onboarding and sent weekly campus-event digests.

Campus Ambassador — XRP Ledger Community

Sep 2023 – Aug 2024

  • Explained XRPL and blockchain fundamentals to non-crypto audiences.
  • Helped host hackathons and campus workshops.

Community Mentor — Trinity TAP / Community Mentoring Programme

  • Supported a Dublin-focused access programme designed to increase confidence around higher education.
  • The same access theme carries into my Code Mentor work today.

Jobs

Mechanical but important roles that paid rent and taught responsibility when the queue was full:

  • Kitchen Porter — Scholars Townhouse Hotel (May 2021 – Apr 2024).
  • Lead Line Cook — McDonald's, New Jersey (Summer 2022).
  • Food Production Team Member — Jonesbar (Summer 2022).
  • Frontline Team Member — Playa Bowls (Summer 2022).
  • Student intern track — Philadelphia real-estate team (licensing exam prep, remote, 2022–2023).

Selected events & awards

  • Citadel Securities puzzle competition — team placed tied 2nd; finalist cohort.
  • Trinity entrance exams — college book prize / voucher for results.
  • DUCSS treks — Microsoft London and Bloomberg HQ visits.
  • SIG Discovery Day — Dublin office deep dive.
  • PwC / McKinsey / Rotman simulation and insight days — early exploration of buyside, consulting, and markets.

Where this site fits

Longer essay-style writing lives under Press. Product and protocol stories are linked from About so the island home stays lightweight.

If you want the version of me that posts screenshots and half-baked charts, that is still LinkedIn and X.

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