Work experience

Summary

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

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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.

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Work

Data Engineer — Archive Capital

Present

I work as the Data Engineer at Archive Capital. I build dashboards, digitise and automate client collection forms, and automate email updates on markets and portfolios. Public overview: archive-capital.

Representative — Chainlink Labs

Mar 2024 – Jan 2026 · Part-time · Hybrid · Dublin

• Developed educational content explaining blockchain infrastructure, smart contracts, the oracle problem, and why secure external data matters for on-chain applications.
• Used Oracles / Chainlink as the concrete example for how blockchains connect to prices, events, APIs, reserves, randomness, and cross-chain systems.
• Organised and hosted IRL meetups, events, and conferences for students and builders interested in blockchain technology.
• Worked 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.

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Academic Projects

Nualang — Head of Frontend

Jan – Jun 2026 · Trinity College Dublin Software Engineering Project

Led the frontend work for a team that built an AI-powered platform for learning Irish with Nualang.

• Owned the frontend direction and implementation for the team.
• Helped turn Nualang's language-learning technology into a focused Irish-learning experience.
• Won the Public Vote Award at the 2026 final showcase and received a cash prize.

Munich Re — Frontend Project

Jan 2025 – Jun 2025 · College collaboration

This was a college collaboration between Munich Re and PolicyPal AI. I worked on the frontend rather than across the full stack.

• Built responsive React + Vite interfaces.
• Created reusable frontend components for the insurance product.

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Internships

Equity Analyst — SIG (Susquehanna International Group)

Jun – Aug 2026 · Internship · Dublin

• Conducted event-driven research across European equities, combining fundamentals, catalysts, and valuation with probabilistic forecasts of directional moves and volatility.
• Built scenario, sensitivity, and probability-weighted expected-value analyses for earnings, M&A, macro releases, and other events; presented long/short pitches and updated views as information changed.
• Trained in options, derivatives, volatility, ETFs, arbitrage, and market making, applying the concepts in two-sided quoting and risk-management simulations.
• Write-up on Press.

AI & Data Intern — EY

Jun 2026 – 19 Jun 2026 · Internship · Dublin · On-site

• Built an end-to-end pipeline adapting open-source LLMs (TinyLlama-1.1B) to a financial domain — spanning SEC EDGAR ingestion, synthetic data generation, RAG, LoRA fine-tuning, and DPO alignment — with PyTorch, Hugging Face, peft, and trl on Apple Silicon.
• Fine-tuned via rank-16 LoRA adapters on ~0.5% of model parameters, then aligned outputs to preferences using a custom reward model and DPO.
• Built an evaluation harness benchmarking base vs fine-tuned vs RAG models on ROUGE-L, BERTScore, and NLI-based hallucination detection — RAG eliminated the base model's fabricated financial figures.
• Longer write-up on Press.

Full Stack Software Engineer — Empyreal

Jun – Aug 2025 · Remote / hybrid

• Worked as a Full Stack Software Engineer on Talos with Empyreal — protocol PRs, then owning the TIP Portal on talos.is.
• Create flow with X OAuth, Talos-tuned LLM drafting, GitHub bot PRs, and an Open/Implemented TIP feed.
• Write-up on Press · technical detail in project Talos.

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.
• Write-up on Press.

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.
• Write-up on Press.

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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.

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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).

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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.

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Where this site fits

Longer essay-style writing lives under Press. Product and protocol stories are in Experience.

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