Rice University, Houston, TX
Bachelor of Science in Operations Research
Bachelor of Science in Applied Math
May 2028
Major GPA: 3.93/4.0
SAT: Math 800, Verbal 730
Written Documentation
Jayden's Resume.
21 years of life experiences condensed into one page.
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Education
02
Awards & Leadership
Placed 19/136 at UMich Quant Poker Tournament (nation's largest collegiate poker tournament), 2025
Rice Medtech Hack-a-thon, 2024
EY Case Competition, 2025
International Violin Concerto Competition, 2023
Fastest individual swimmer in 100 fly and breaststroke in Nevada, 2023
03
Professional Experience
Goldman Sachs Investment Banking Summer Analyst
- Spearheaded development of an internal multi-agent AI system after identifying workflow inefficiencies in day-to-day banking execution; self-initiated alongside core internship responsibilities
- Architected a RAG agent orchestration on LangGraph with a custom MCP server, evaluation harness, and full observability/tracing for long-form task execution
- Team pilot reduced internal data pulling and compilation from ~2 hours to 15 minutes per instance; leadership demo scheduled for August ahead of broader rollout
- Own production of industry landscape decks for live client engagements, synthesizing market sizing and competitive positioning
- Break down open-ended strategic questions into structured analyses combining Refinitiv/Factset data, earnings commentary, and precedent transactions under tight deadlines
Resident @ Harvard St. Commons (Hacker House)
Boston, MA (harvardst.co)
- Selected for founder/operator hacker house focused on building technical startups, AI tools, and venture-backed software
- Built and launched BAIR (bair-seven.vercel.app), a haircut and skincare analysis app, after interviewing 50+ barbers and identifying miscommunication between client and barbers. Multiple salon adoption and 10 minute decrease in appointment times
- Won $10K and 2nd place at Boston’s largest pitch competition hosted by Arcangel & Shopline; won multiple Harvard/MIT-hosted poker tournaments, one led to a $250K pre-seed investment offer from Entrepreneur First ($16B+ AUM, joinef.com)
- Advised on GTM strategy for product-lines for various startups ranging from supply-chain hardware/software (runlaminar.com) to retail consumer camera company (dijie.me); led Meta ads strategy for Dijie, optimizing ROAS and CPC across paid campaigns
- Iterated through 10+ ecommerce sites for various consumer products based on customer sentiment and competitive landscape; led to building a consumer sentiment monitoring platform and a self-sufficient ad campaign pipeline engine.
Data Scientist Intern, Bainbridge Capital & Consulting
San Diego, CA
- Engineered a Python ETL + scoring pipeline that parsed SEC, PitchBook, and CapIQ data for 120 fintech/health-tech targets, ranked them by growth-efficiency, and cut screening time 30%, producing the 10-company short-list used in two live LOIs
Genomics Researcher, Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX
- Modeled gene-level expression volatility from 30M+ RNA-Seq / NGS reads using custom pipelines in Python, R, DESeq2, isolating signals correlated with age-related macular degeneration (AMD) progression
- Clustered 2,000+ non-coding cis-regulatory elements by expression correlation structure; surfaced 3 high-signal gene networks statistically enriched for retinal degeneration pathways
- Built a filtering pipeline to identify non-random expression spikes across replicates; outputs guided target selection in AMD design
04
Projects
PLSBRO (Decentralized Task Marketplace)
- Building a peer-to-peer and SMB task/favor platforms to leverage social and trust networks to increase individual efficiency.
Risk-Managed Crypto Momentum Strategy & Live Monitoring Platform (Binance.US, 2019-2025)
- Designed cross-sectional, beta-neutral momentum engine in Python (pandas/NumPy) trading 22 large-cap crypto pairs via the Binance API, with volatility targeting and multi-layer risk management; validated out-of-sample at Sharpe 2.87
- Built a Streamlit monitoring platform with a LangGraph multi-agent layer (monitor, triage, investigator, briefing agents) that autonomously detects strategy anomalies, forms root-cause hypotheses from live market context, and dispatches Telegram alerts
- Backed by Postgres state history for longitudinal reasoning and full observability/tracing on agent runs, demoable end-to-end from a single live dashboard
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Skills & Interests
Skills
Python, LangGraph, LangChain, Harness Engineering, R, MATLAB, AI Orchestration, Mathematical Modeling
Interests
Poker, Golf, Basketball, Competitive Swimming, Violin