i build things, then watch them run. a trading algorithm, a video factory, a hedge for bar promos.
build log
a few sentences of plain language turn into thousands of lines of code now. what used to take months takes an afternoon. i've always loved building things. i never really liked the coding.
the best part is watching something i built come alive. my classmates in middle school using my discord bots. a trading algorithm i wrote climbing into the top 100 on kalshi.
most of what i've built started as a bet that i could. the ones that worked are below.
cwru, computer science and math, class of 2028. i speak mandarin.
jan 2026 to now · cleveland
i trade my own money on kalshi's crypto markets with a system i wrote.
it reads the order book and a few crypto venues, places the orders, checks the risk and checks the fills. every idea runs against a replay of old data before it touches real money.
june 2026 to now · four cities
heron sells bars a promo they couldn't afford on their own. i built the models behind it.
i priced the promos, sized the liability and placed the hedges on prediction markets. the first bars signed this summer.
summer 2026 · morgantown
a model that watches pharmacy claims and notices when denials spike.
it watches about a hundred million dollars a year of pharmacy claims and flags the weeks that look wrong. i built the modeling core, the team wired it into production, and i added tooling so people could ask it questions in open webui.
june 2025 to may 2026 · remote
i ran engineering at a video factory for a year.
python, node and ffmpeg end to end: scripts in, rendered videos out, distributed. it ended in may 2026.
summer 2025 · gaithersburg
a help-desk assistant that reads the internal docs so people don't have to.
it finds the right doc, sorts the candidates and digs deeper when the first pass is thin, inside a custom open webui fork. i added logging and failure analysis so we knew when it was wrong.
no write-ups. just what each one was and what it did.
2026 · trading
it trades while i sleep.
it makes markets and trades price gaps between kalshi's crypto markets. about 30,000 trades so far.
2026 · product
free drinks if the home team wins.
the bar doesn't eat that. heron prices the promo, covers the payout and hedges it on prediction markets.
2025 · system
three thousand videos a month.
a content pipeline that rendered and shipped the videos itself. about twenty million views a month, for a year.
2025 · tool
reads the docs so you don't.
a retrieval assistant for nist's internal docs. it answers and says which doc it used.
email is the fastest way to reach me. i answer all of them.
ethan.wanq@gmail.comoh, and about the agents.
most of this page was drawn in by a cursor while you read. there are six of them. they don't exist.most of this page was drawn in by a cursor while you read. there are three of them. they don't exist.
nothing is sent anywhere. there's no server behind this page. it's files on a cdn and some javascript.
they'll do it again if you ask.
this page is usually drawn in by six cursors while you read it. today they stayed home.this page is usually drawn in by three cursors while you read it. today they stayed home.
it jumps to the top and takes about as long as reading it did.