01 · hi, i'm

Daniel· Builder· Engineer·

I build applied AI systems, robotics, and data solutions. Currently exploring machine learning, quantitative finance, VR interaction, distributed systems, and cloud applications. I'm passionate about turning complex problems into working prototypes and optimized solutions. Always learning, always building, always shipping.

bristol

Bristol · UK

Stack

Python, TypeScript, Go, C++

Focus

AI systems · Robotics · Quant

Now

Building deployable prototypes

02 · live wall

What I'm up to, right now.

A collection of current projects, learning, and work in progress.

Recent Projects

ML Trading System

Building a SPY 5-minute trading system with GBDT models and Alpaca integration.

Updated 2 days ago

Learning

Quantum Finance

Exploring quantum Monte Carlo methods for portfolio optimization.

Active

Open Source

Contributing to PyTorch

Working on distributed systems improvements and performance optimization.

Ongoing

03 · projects

Selected work

A collection of AI systems, robotics, and software projects I've built.

Property Matching AI

A Cloudflare rental matching MVP that lets tenants describe their needs, searches property listings, filters unavailable homes, and ranks matches by fit.

  • Cloudflare
  • D1
  • JavaScript
  • Property Intel
  • Auth
  • Matching
Details

Veritas

Federated fraud intelligence for UK banking. A cross-bank fraud-detection model trained across multiple banks' records using federated learning to catch scam campaigns in hours instead of days without sharing customer data.

  • Federated Learning
  • Python
  • GNN
  • Banking
  • Differential Privacy
  • NextJS
Details

ML Trading

A SPY 5-minute trading system with separate workflows for data updates, GBDT model training, policy selection, and Alpaca paper-trading execution.

  • Python
  • pandas
  • GBDT
  • Alpaca
  • Backtest
  • 5m Data
Details

Real-time Portfolio Optimisation

EncodeAI Wormhole bounty winner: a quantum-enhanced DeFi portfolio suite using Wormhole data, kernel analysis, quantum Monte Carlo ideas, and explainable AI.

  • Quantum Finance
  • Wormhole
  • Solana
  • XAI
Details

Game of Life

Top-ranked Computer Systems A project comparing parallel and distributed Conway's Game of Life implementations in Go, with halo exchange and communication-overhead analysis.

  • Go
  • Goroutines
  • Halo Exchange
  • Distributed Systems
  • AWS
  • Lust
Details

Industrial Hazard Detector

u3Core industrial safety platform: a camera-independent anomaly detection system for fire, smoke, and oil leaks with cloud/edge deployment paths and alert integrations.

  • Computer Vision
  • Roboflow
  • OpenCV
  • Twilio
  • AWS
  • IoT Edge
Details

Adaptive VR

A VR and robotics interaction project built around immersive control workflows, adaptive user experiences, model assets, and evaluation tooling.

  • VR
  • Robotics
  • JavaScript
  • Interaction
  • Evaluation
Details

Robot Arm

A calibration-friendly robot arm control stack with Arduino firmware, safe serial commands, Python primitives, and workflows for tuning real joint limits and poses.

  • Python
  • Arduino
  • Robotics
  • Serial Control
  • Calibration
Details

AI Travel Planner

A Cloudflare Worker chat app that researches destinations, estimates weather and budget context, stores preferences, and generates day-by-day itineraries.

  • TypeScript
  • Cloudflare Workers
  • Durable Objects
  • Workers AI
  • React
Details

BlackSwan

A Flare Coston2 hackathon project for a bio-sovereign data market, using biometric event attestation, smart contracts, escrow, and proof-of-affect mechanics.

  • Flare FDC
  • Solidity
  • Go
  • RISC0
  • Biometrics
Details

IonQ Remote Challenge

IonQ iQuHACK remote challenge work with qBraid notebooks and Python wrapper functions for probing, attacking, and evaluating challenge vaults.

  • Quantum
  • IonQ
  • qBraid
  • Python
Details
03 · experience

Work & projects

2025

EncodeAI Wormhole Bounty Winner

Built a quantum-enhanced DeFi portfolio optimization system with real-time data feeds and explainable AI models.

2024

Top-Ranked Systems Project

Implemented parallel and distributed Conway's Game of Life in Go with halo exchange and performance analysis.

2024-25

Industrial AI Safety Platform

Developed computer vision and IoT systems for autonomous hazard detection in industrial environments.

04 · education

Learning & development

Computer Science

Focus: AI systems, distributed computing, robotics

Skills

Python, TypeScript, Go, C++ · ML, robotics, cloud systems

05 · contact

Let's work together

Interested in projects, collaborations, or discussing ideas?