Hello! I'm a Data Scientist with 5 years of experience working across software development, AI, and machine learning. I have a keen interest in, and a real passion for, mathematics, finance, econometrics, and forecasting. Time series and forecasting really fascinate me. They make me wonder how the future could be predicted, and how useful that is across so many areas and research.

After a couple of internships, I started my full-time software development career at S&P Global in 2022. What started as an internship quickly turned into a full-time role leading a team of five, mentoring, and building the next-gen workflow automation data pipeline in native Python.

My passion for machine learning goes back to my undergrad days in computer science, which led me to pursue a master's in data science at Florida State University (2023-2025). I had a wonderful time learning, researching, and building. I worked as a research assistant under a chemistry professor, researching and implementing generative AI and open-source models on HPC clusters to synthesize molecular models and study stability for batteries.

I then joined the Agency for Persons with Disabilities (State of Florida) as a research statistics consultant (data scientist) in the agency's data unit, working with large-scale consumer and client data: providers, services, budget allocations, Medicaid, cost analysis, rate optimization, and a whole bunch of statistical analysis about our consumers!

Through all these years, I slowly grew a passion for financial markets: the mathematics behind breakthrough models like Black-Scholes, CAPM, and ARIMA, the theory and intuition behind the options market, and quantitative analysis and research in general, which is now something I'm eagerly pursuing.

My current day-to-day is a juggle between work and a personal quest for knowledge. Work involves writing and maintaining scripts and automations, modernizing legacy thinking and systems at the state, and handling data efficiently at speed. I use SPSS, Python, and SQL for most of my workflow. I run analysis and research behind every question that comes across the agency, whether it's about numbers, finances, or anything else, and use data to give management the key insights to answer those questions and take better actions. That's also the reason forecasting became such a keen interest of mine.

I'm constantly learning, solving puzzles (trader math, LeetCode, quick math, Wordle), and studying economics, finance, and forecasting in general.

I strive to be a subject matter expert and a professional in this field, and to use data and history to take a better, data-driven look into the future.

Check out some of my photography work on VSCO.

About this site

Welcome to my home on the internet. This site functions as a blog/portfolio, a place to share code and thoughts. Opinions of my own.

I learnt how to build this site from the most awesome people in the community:

• Timothy's Next.js and Tailwind CSS template: Template starter where I bootstrapped the project.
• Einar Guðjónsson: Now page, navigation style, animations and much more.