Founder-CEO with a Ph.D. from Imperial College and 20+ years building things that work at the extremes. Space hardware orbiting Earth on ESA's GIOVE/A. Nanosecond trading systems on Wall Street. AI-powered video search at skiv, backed by top-tier investors.
Also created WebCanvas (the world's largest collaborative painting), utils.com (largest repository of online utilities), unsu (zero-install crypto wallet), libfpga (FPGA IP core registry and playground), and wrote the DeFi Book (practical guide to decentralized finance), among many other projects.
CQF-certified quant with a keen interest in macro economics and pricing models. Enjoys hackathons and building tools that make hard things simple. Speaks English, Portuguese, and Cantonese.
Experience
skiv (f/k/a muse.ai) | Co-Founder & CEO
- Building the world's most advanced multimodal video search platform that understands speech, text, objects, and actions inside any video.
- Led strategic pivot that transformed the company's market positioning and product direction.
- Shipped a product used globally, making AI-powered video intelligence accessible at any scale.
skiv (f/k/a muse.ai) | Co-Founder & CTO
- Designed and built the entire technical stack from zero: video ingestion, ML pipelines, search infrastructure, and API layer.
- Developed proprietary ML models for multimodal content understanding: visual, auditory, and semantic.
- Built and scaled the engineering team; established technical culture and delivery processes.
Morgan Stanley | Electronic Trading, EAI Accelerator Group
- Architected an Ultra-Low-Latency FPGA-based trading system: custom UDP/IP stack, order book with nanosecond-level sorting, matching engine, and pricing logic, all in hardware.
- Built a Rapid Hardware Development platform adopted firm-wide, bridging software engineering practices with FPGA design.
- Created a graph database with reactive UI for real-time dependency analysis across trading systems.
- Drove academic partnership with Imperial College producing ScalaHDL and a published IEEE paper.
- Delivered critical infrastructure: market data pub/sub bridge, FPGA memory cache, and serialization benchmarks informing firm-wide technology choices.
J.P. Morgan | Investment Bank, Analytics Strategic Group
- Core contributor to Athena, J.P. Morgan's cross-asset trading and risk platform processing billions in daily notional. Globally replicated C++ database, Python-based RAD environment, and full operational ecosystem.
Imperial College London | Circuits and Systems Group
- Accelerated computational solvers for the EU-funded EMBOCON embedded optimization project.
- Contributed to Novo-G, at the time the world's most powerful reconfigurable supercomputer.
WebCanvas | Founder & CEO
- Created the world's largest collaborative painting; an infinite real-time canvas with users worldwide. Award-winning (London Start-up Camp 2008). Featured on BBC Click:
Surrey Satellite Technology | GNSS Systems Engineer
- Wrote FPGA firmware and flight software now orbiting Earth onboard ESA's GIOVE/A navigation satellite.
- Presented at NASA MAPLD 2005 (Washington D.C.).
European Space Agency | Satellite Engineer
- Founding member of ESA's SSETI student satellite program.
- Flew on ESA's parabolic flight campaign; built a zero-gravity particle simulation in C and OpenGL.
Publications & Talks
Ph.D. Thesis | Imperial College London
- Accelerating Iterative Methods for Solving Systems of Linear Equations using FPGAs, 2010.
Selected Papers
- ScalaHDL: Express and Test Hardware Designs in a Scala DSL, ICCD 2014.
- High Throughput FPGA-Based Floating Point CG for Dense Matrices, TRETS 3(1) 2010.
- Fused Hybrid Floating-Point and Fixed-Point Dot-Product for FPGAs, ARC 2010.
- Accuracy Parameterizable Solvers for Model Predictive Control, FCCM 2009.
- FPGA-based Floating Point Conjugate Gradient, ARC 2008.
- Floating-point Solver for Band Structured Linear Equations, FPT 2008.
- Integrated CAN and EDAC for Spacecraft, NASA MAPLD 2005.
Selected Talks
- How AI Sees, Hears, and Relates Concepts, SecondHome, Lisbon 2017.
- Modern Big Data Systems for ML, Thomson Reuters, London 2015.
- The Bitcoin Innovation, University of Oxford 2014.
- FPGAs in Finance, Imperial College 2014.
- Hardware Acceleration Today, STAC Summit, London 2013.
- Bitcoin Analytics, Python for Quants, NYC 2014.
Education
CQF Institute | Certificate in Quantitative Finance
- Derivatives, stochastic calculus, risk modelling, and numerical methods across 6 intensive modules.
- Final project: portfolio optimization using Black-Litterman.
Imperial College London | Ph.D. in Scientific Computing
- Pioneered FPGA-accelerated solvers for Model Predictive Control, achieving 10x+ speedups over high-end multi-core CPUs.
- 7 peer-reviewed publications. Presented at international conferences in London, Bangkok, Napa, Taipei, and Belfast.
University of Surrey | Electronics & Computer Engineering
- First Class Honours, top of class.
- Final project: FPGA-based GPS receiver. Presented at NASA MAPLD (Washington D.C.).
Interests & Hobbies
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