I'm in the middle of a self-directed transition from web development into quantitative finance / low-latency systems. This isn't a side curiosity — it's a structured, long-term plan.
- 📐 C++23 — modern systems programming, currently building things like a stride scheduler from scratch
- 🖥️ Operating Systems fundamentals — scheduling, memory, concurrency
- 🌐 Computer Networks — the fundamentals that underpin low-latency systems
- 📊 Quantitative finance — building a personal project with a data pipeline and an LSTM-based prediction model in PyTorch
4+ years building production systems in Laravel, Vue.js, and PostgreSQL, with a strong focus on backend architecture, performance, and clean design patterns.