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How I went from almost skipping the Harvard Crimson Business Competition to building STRATUM, a quantitative finance system combining machine learning, deep mathematics, and DevOps.

From Siddharth Nagar to Stanford — the full story of how I applied, prepared for the interview, and got selected for the Stanford AI & Deep Mathematics Research Program (July–August 2026).

A raw, honest, and deeply personal blog about tax season chaos, falling in love with quantitative finance, building an Indian Palantir, and refusing to stop.

My transition from DevOps and cybersecurity to quantitative finance—not as an escape, but as a convergence of everything I’ve learned about systems, risk, and reality.

In this post we take a deep look at Palantir Gotham – what it actually is, how it works under the hood, where it’s deployed, the controversies around it, and why it has become one of the most influential and debated software platforms in modern intelligence and defense.

David Rockefeller (1915–2017) was an American banker, writer, and philanthropist from one of the wealthiest families in U.S. history. The youngest son of John D. Rockefeller Jr., he was the last surviving grandson of oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller, founder of Standard Oil. Born and raised in New York, he studied at Harvard (A.B., 1936), the London School of Economics, and the University of Chicago (Ph.D., 1940).

Explore how artificial intelligence is reshaping computer science careers, creating new opportunities in machine learning, data science, and beyond.

A personal reflection on how generative AI is transforming cloud development and what it means for engineers like me building on AWS.