Hey, I'm Ivan,

I'm 20.000000000 years old

I like to work in the overlap.

Machine learning, the craft of building product, and the nerve to start things. The edges are just as fun.

Machine
Learning
Product
Engineering
Entrepreneurship

Experience

Product Intern
May 2026 - Present
New York, NY

Engineering product features across Knot's fintech user flows and customer-facing experiences. Shipped a production banking demo in Knot's developer docs that gave card-issuer stakeholders their first hands-on look at card-switching and transaction-data workflows, and built an end-to-end API reference integration spanning auth, the Web SDK, webhooks, and SKU-level sync.

AI Program Manager
April 2026 - Present
Pittsburgh, PA

Advancing AI-powered student support through Student Information Technology for 10,000+ Carnegie Mellon students. Run the campus AI assistant, using student feedback loops to sharpen answer quality and resource accuracy, and refined AI resource discovery across 350+ student organizations.

Quantitative Research Intern
May 2026 - Present
Remote

Advancing crypto portfolio intelligence through ML-driven signals and backtesting on Crypt0nest. Replicated machine-learning-for-trading strategies across full modeling and backtesting pipelines in Python, trained gradient-boosted models on engineered momentum, volatility, and volume signals, and researched on-chain factors for long-short portfolios.

Co-Founder & COO
February 2025 - August 2025
San Francisco, CA

Co-founded an AI dispatch startup and went through Y Combinator's Summer 2025 batch. Raised a pre-seed round and built the LLM voice-agent stack, data infrastructure, and evaluation harness that caught failures and improved outputs, then led pilots with real-estate firms to turn ambiguous market feedback into product decisions.

Founder's Associate
May 2025 - June 2025
Remote

Helped build the playbook powering the next wave of agtech growth. Built a KPI dashboard and weekly reporting cadence for leadership and investors that surfaced trends, risks, and next steps, and analyzed 100+ farms to segment accounts and prioritize high-value opportunities.

Projects

interlink
Interlink Ads
2026

A privacy-safe sponsored status line for the Claude Code terminal. No account, no code access, reversible in a single line. The wait while the model thinks becomes the placement.

vantage
Vantage
2026

Turns live NWS/NOAA hail data into the real homes inside a storm footprint, then scores and ranks them as roofing leads. Built with Next.js, Supabase, and OpenStreetMap.

nba-trading
NBA Finals Trading
2026

A live algorithmic-trading and market-microstructure research lab for NBA prediction markets, built in Python on top of nba_api.

EIGEN
EIGEN
2026

A DTC storefront and product landing page for EIGEN, a nicotine-free focus pouch built for deep work. Next.js on Vercel.

linepulse
LinePulse
2026

A passive "who's out right now" nightlife board that reads Google's live busyness signal, so no one has to check in.