01Case study
Engineering system
WasteShark
An autonomous aquatic debris collection system combining software, electrical systems, MQTT communication, and physical design.
Software engineering student
Building systems and designingsolutionsfor complex problems.
Hii, I’m Ayana :) I’m interested in quantitative systems, solutions engineering, full-stack development, and basically all the work of translating complicated ideas into something clear and useful.
Section I
Selected work
Technical work with an editorial point of view.
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02Project complete
Quantitative research
SPY One-Day Dip-Reversion Backtest
A Python study testing next-session SPY performance after large daily declines while price remains above its 200-day moving average.
03Project complete
Software
Digital Chess Game
A Java chess game with a graphical interface, complete movement rules, undo functionality, game-state tracking, and automated testing.
Section II
Software archive
Software projects, experiments, and technical studies.
A growing archive of projects exploring how systems are designed, tested, and refined.
S1Page ready
Software
Digital Chess Game
A Java chess game with a graphical interface, complete move rules, undo functionality, and automated testing.
Open project pageS2Page ready
Quantitative systems
SPY One-Day Dip-Reversion Backtest
Testing next-session SPY rebounds after declines greater than 2% while price remains above its 200-day moving average.
Open project pageS3Coming soon
Software project
Financial Advisor Copilot
An advisor-facing generative AI system that transforms client-approved meeting notes and transcripts into a structured financial profile. It identifies goals, risk tolerance, time horizon, liquidity needs, investment preferences, and constraints, then generates draft portfolio scenarios with clear rationale and tradeoffs for advisor validation and discussion with the client.
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Software project
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Software project
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Upload in progressSection III
I’m interested in systems, but also in what systems mean to people.
I've always been drawn to and by the systems that make up the world around us. The physical world is beautifully dense with what generations of people have built. The digital world, although relatively established, it is also ever-changing with each new idea very capable of changing its landscape.
That possibility is what excites me. Software is the craft by which I make my most direct contribution to that world. The various paths that I am pursuing each allow me to engage with complex systems from different perspectives.
Through quantitative work, can study one of the systems that quietly shapes so much of modern life: financial markets, observed through data, probability, risk, and backtesting. Through solutions engineering, I find myself at the point where people, problems, and technology meet. Through software development, I have the means to build within the digital world itself and, in some small way, take part in shaping what it becomes. As a young professional, I’m still discovering where these paths will lead, but I do know what links them together: the same enduring curiosity that has always drawn me toward understanding the world.
“Basically, I have been compelled by curiosity..”
Section IV
Current focus
What I am learning and building now.
Probability & markets
Learning how assumptions, risk, transaction costs, and overfitting change the interpretation of a strategy.
Technical discovery
Practising how to turn an unclear business problem into useful questions, requirements, architecture, and tradeoffs.
Software foundations
Strengthening Java, Python, data structures, and the habit of explaining technical decisions clearly.
Section V
Field notes
Published in The Human Variable
Longer thoughts, observations, and work in progress.
My writing is a separate space for reflections, research notes, creative work, and questions that need more room than a project card.
Correspondence
Let’s exchange ideas.
Reach out about internships, technical projects, quantitative systems, solutions engineering, collaborative art or technology ideas, or simply to exchange thoughts.
I’m especially interested in connecting with people who care about youth mental health advocacy and encouraging more girls to pursue STEM.