I build research systems, AI platforms, agentic worfklow apps, quantitative systems and data pipelines
Blacklight Studio: AI Platform | [WIP]: v0.0.1 alpha | https://github.com/tserd-io/blacklight
An open-source AI workflow control plane that aims at building a modular LLM evaluation, regulation and observability system for internal AI workflows. It can easily plug into your existing provider and create a full workflow trace of prompts, decisions, failures, cost and performance for your LLM calls.
Strategy Autopsy | [WIP] | https://www.strategyautopsy.com
A due diligence layer for trading strategies: benchmark selection, cost modeling, robustness checks, regime analysis, and report generation.
The goal is simple: help people find the weak points in a strategy before capital, reputation, or time gets committed to it.
- Client-facing research products
- Data Engineering, specifically with Cloud platforms and AI/ML workflow enablement.
- AI Platforms
- Building better agentic workflow apps
- Built production data and AI systems across government, telecom, and financial domains.
- Designed GenAI document workflows using LangGraph, RAG pipelines, OpenAI tooling, and human-in-the-loop validation.
- Built cloud-native data platforms with Python, PySpark, SQL, dbt, and Azure Databricks.
- Delivered ML/data work tied to $45M+ in annualized business impact.
- Built research and analytics systems for trading, market structure, forecasting, anomaly detection, and decision support.
- Currently pursuing an M.Sc. in Interdisciplinary Artificial Intelligence at the University of Ottawa.
- Python, JavaScript, SQL
- Backtesting engines and reporting systems
- Market data engineering
- Factor research workflows
- ML modelling and LLM fine-tuning
- Data quality, reproducibility, and experiment tracking
- Netlify, serverless functions, automation
- Loves playing tennis, chess, hockey, and time outdoors hiking and camping
- I have a soft spot for trading research, AI infrastructure, and weird edge cases in data.
- I think “what failed?” is usually a more interesting question than “what worked?”
- Website: https://www.strategyautopsy.com
- GitHub: https://github.com/tserd-io
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/thomas-serd