👆🏽My energy (& favorite movie)

What I do

I refuse to be labeled by a single profession, so I’ll explain what I do day-to-day:

Morning → I’m a day trader, where I trade equities in the stock market & develop quantitative trading systems for my company Junto Trading.
Afternoon → I’m the Head of Product at Packsmith, where I lead product management, & strategy.
Evening → I’m an author, where I write various books (check out my math book Manifest, out now).
Weekends → I’m a Web3 evangelist, building Afghan DAO, a project I am launching w/ Holland White to document & store Afghanistan’s history on the blockchain. I’m also learning mathematics so I can continue building machine learning trading models.

When I’m not doing either of those, you’ll find me reading books for my Grit MBA curriculum, weightlifting, or exploring coffee shops with my beautiful wife Amy.

What I know

I have extensive experience in the sharing economy, networks, and network effects. I am head over heels in love with mathematics, physics, and technology, so I’m using what I know to make an impact in the world. This manifests in many different avenues and my biggest problem is having my hand in many different projects. I’m only human and learning — I’ve begun to converge these areas into a singular vision I have for my impact on the world.

My deepest inspiration stems from observing nature and it’s been a guiding force in building products, writing, or when I’m placing equity trades. I have spent 4 years building machine learning products and have spent the last year creating and training my own models for my own quantitative trading system.

Markov models & Bayesian probabilities changed my life.

What I like

Benjamin Franklin
Pour-over coffee
Popcorn
Incline bench presses
Eureka! moments

What I build

Current

Head of Product, Packsmith

I lead product management for the entire platform, including the mobile app, logistics solution, and 3PL.

Founder, Junto Trading

I launched a short-term trading firm that specializes in equity trading and trading education. I work on building quantitative models and deploying algorithmic trading strategies.

Author

I’m a published author who writes about a wide range of topics.

In progress:

The Pragmatic Day Trader → This book is an accessible read for day traders & swing traders who need bite sized bits of trading psychology and strategies as they perfect their craft. The premise of this book is the juxtaposition of “letting go” while being “intensely focused”.

Published books:

Manifest → This book explores the vast terrain of mathematics, starting with the history of mathematics, extending to complex problems in theoretical physics, and surveying the most important unsolved problems & conjectures. Click here to purchase.

Prior

Co-Founder, Afghan DAO

I am launching a Web3 DAO (decentalized autonomous organization) dedicated to crowdsourcing & preserving Afghanistan’s culture & history on the blockchain.

Product Consultant

I consult tech startups and executives on product management, assisting with roadmap creation, prioritization, and product strategy.

Current clients:

PeakSpan Capital → As a member of PeakSpan Capital’s network of expert advisors, I offer product consultation to their portfolio companies.

Past clients:

Tapcheck → I provided consultation on new business verticals the company wanted to pursue.
Instabug → I implemented a product management framework for the team to use, including roadmaps, prioritization techniques, and software for project tracking.
Caliza → I assisted the team with roadmap development and prioritization efforts.
Squire → I instrumented the company’s onboarding system, including providing them with guidance on how to optimize their conversion funnel.
Eaze → I instrumented the company’s onboarding system and assisted with their automated document collection capabilities.

Product Lead, Found

I led our taxes, bookkeeping, & subscriptions product for self-managed businesses.

Product Manager, Step

Worked on the mobile app for both teens & their sponsors. Improved the P2P payment system, built out reporting dashboards & optimized growth.

Product Lead, Uber

Led two machine learning products for the UberEats app: home feed ranking (personalization) & search relevance. Also devised & built two newly-spawn products: an in-house personalization-as-a-service so our team can build & train ML models on behalf of other teams, and a solution to display restaurants located in areas where couriers will be in the near future during supply-constrained periods.

Senior Product Manager, Postmates

Managed the courier fleet within the three-sided market place. This involved fleet supply, growth, signups, mobile app for deliveries and routing/dispatching logic. Postmates has since been acquired by UberEats.

Product Manager, Intuit

Launched the Quickbooks Self-Employed product in 7 different countries, contoured to the localized sole proprietary laws. I also successfully pitched & launched the development of a Quickbooks acquisition ecosystem that would get small businesses & independent contractors on the full suite of Quickbooks products to cross-sell. I also product managed the Intuit Workforce product, an applicant tracking system (ATS) designed for on-demand companies that need to onboard large volume of self-employed contractors in a short time frame.

Competitive Intelligence Lead, Lyft

I built and led an internal competitive intelligence team at Lyft. As an in-house consultant on all-things Uber, I provided pricing information that informed our daily incentive pricing strategies. I also pitched pursuing the following at Lyft: vehicle leasing program, grocery delivery services & marijuana delivery services. As an expert in all things on-demand, I also contracted out my services to Caviar & Doordash.

I started two smaller ventures that unfortunately never advanced beyond beta:

Intuition Ingenuity — a residential spatial intelligence system that sought to manage all incoming and outgoing personal data related to domestic facilities management.
Dodofare — an on-demand grocery delivery startup aimed at giving back to local charities.

Want some more details? Check out my LinkedIn.

Aside from my employment above, I also spent the summer of 2017 developing an Amazon Alexa Skill for natural disaster preparedness called Noah. I love dipping my beak in new tech.

What I say

I've done a number of lectures and panel discussions on technology and the on-demand economy. Check out what I've done in the past and my upcoming talks.

December 5, 2017 | San Francisco, CA

I was a part of a fireside chat with Postmates' Head of Influencer & Marketing Strategy, Ben Trinh, at the Mobile Innovation Summit in San Francisco. We discussed the importance of Influencer Marketing in the sharing economy and how alternative income continues to change the employment landscape.

March 20, 2017 | San Francisco, CA

I was a panel speaker at the British Consulate General in San Francisco speaking on the on-demand economy and the future of work for the self-employed. The event is hosted by the British American Project and will host notable members including US and UK Ambassadors.

March 2, 2017 | Cairo, Egypt

I spoke at the American University in Cairo and their Venture Lab to a number of their startups. The topic of discussion is two-fold: I discussed the validation of product-market fit for the "Uber for X" framework and my colleague Ezra Kebrab focused on the future of FinTech and payments.

March 1, 2017 | Cairo, Egypt

The InstaBug team in Cairo invited me to speak at their all-hands meeting. The main discussion was around notable differences between the Egyptian and US technology sectors and the differing atmospheres in startup funding.

May 13, 2016 | Menlo Park, CA, US

BootUp Ventures in Menlo Park, CA invited me to speak with a group of 6 startups from Palestine participating in the Palestinian House in Silicon Valley Program. While there, I gave a 3-hour talk and one-on-one mentorship for each startup on how to perfect B2B marketing, outreach, and product-market fit.

July-August, 2013 | Kathmandu, Nepal

Kathmandu University and Tribhuvan University invited me to give a series of 32 lectures collectively on both campuses to their students regarding the future of technology in the field of management. The goal was to teach the students how to do active outreach, remain technologically savvy, and find work outside Nepal in order to return and strengthen their home country's economy.

This is me 👋🏽.