ANDREW MCCARTHY

Active member contributing to various projects and discussions.

• Engage in an algorithmic trading student fund, collaborating with team members to research, develop, and implement trading strategies, advancing skills in quantitative analysis, risk management, and financial markets
• Conduct in-depth research on various investment opportunities as part of the fund, employing analytical tools and methodologies to provide valuable insights for informed decision-making
• Deliver compelling stock pitch presentations within the investment fund, showcasing thorough analysis and insightful recommendations to guide investment decisions

Managing a $2M market-neutral portfolio in a rigorous 5-month competition focusing on systematic trading strategies and risk management

• Developing and implementing systematic trading strategies while maintaining strict compliance with portfolio constraints including dollar neutrality and position limits
• Utilizing Python to build quantitative models combining trend following and mean reversion signals for stock selection
• Managing a portfolio of 80+ US equities with weekly rebalancing while maintaining dollar neutrality between 0.9-1.1 and maximum position sizes of 5%
• Competing against teams nationwide with performance evaluated on both investment returns and compliance metrics

President of the WashU Club Lacrosse.

• Joined team sophomore year after successful ACL recovery
• Future President.

Past member of the WashU Bears football team, playing safety/OLB before tearing my ACL in the second week. Remained a member of the team until the end of the spring semester.

• Committed approximately 30 hours per week to training, watching film, travel and playing games, and after the injury even more time in rehab
• Balanced demands of a rigorous full course load and intense athletic training schedule and rehab, honing exceptional time management skills

Member of the Mentor St. Louis

• Mentor STL is a non-profit organization that provides mentorship to at-risk kids in the St. Louis area through the Boys and Girls Club.
• Mentor a group of elementary students for one hour a week, providing mentorship and being a positive role model and friend

This course me how the internet worked and gave me a decent foundation to learn how to make whatever I want with code

This course taught me how to control my computer

This course gave me a good foundation to guide my further learning. This course will at its current state teach you everything you need to know to grasp the pretraining process of LLMs. Karpathy is the best teacher in AI and if you don't have the time to devote to this full course on pretraining, you should at least watch this video