Hi 👋🏼 I’m Serge.

I built a deep understanding of financial analysis, statistical modeling, and data science here. I also did a lot of soul searching in college, tried a lot of new things and built many long lasting friendships that I still keep tabs on to this day.

I had all the free time in the world, no job, and a daily symphony of dog-day cicadas asking me what I was going to do with my life. I figured I at least owed it to myself to learn what it would take to build out my ideas – because what if one of them is good? That summer I started learning to program.

If you ask me it was sheer dumb luck, I somehow manged to convince a Chicago based consultancy that I knew enough about computer science to work as a Financial Tech "Software Engineer". I spent the next 2 years learning TypeScript, React, HTML, Tailwindcss, type-systems, and Vim.

If you thought me getting hired as a Financial Tech Software Engineer was a miracle, well... surprise! In 2023 I was admitted to the University of Illinois as a graduate computer science student, I was going to study Linux, operating systems, cuda kernels, AI, databases, and embedded systems full time!

The AI apocalypse seems to be upon us, lot's of people will probably be adversely impacted by this change. While I don't know what the future holds, I do know that there is no way the likes of AI could every engineer a system as complex as Linux, or the next MacOS or Windows; whether the world cares to admit it or not, it will always need software engineers.