Jamal Sinclair O'Garro — AI Engineer, Software Architect & Engineering Consultant
I'm Jamal — a senior software engineer at Netflix working on our experimentation and causal inference platform. Before that I spent over a decade building electronic trading systems at Citadel, Citadel Securities, Goldman Sachs, and Morgan Stanley. I speak at conferences, wrote a book on algorithmic trading, co-founded a meetup called Code Crew, and consult on AI engineering and software architecture. More about me.
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DeepSeek-R1: A Paradigm Shift in Large Language Model Development and Transparency [Paper]
A close read of DeepSeek-R1 — the first frontier-scale LLM to complete peer review at Nature — and what its training methodology (Group Relative Policy...
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Breaking the Context Ceiling: Implementing Recursive Language Models with LangGraph and TypeScript [Blog]
Context windows are marketing numbers. LLMs struggle with information buried in long prompts, even when it fits. Recursive Language Models offer a...
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Predictive Power in ETF Markets: Forecasting Prices with AI [Paper]
Applying modern AI techniques to short-horizon ETF price forecasting, drawing on experience building electronic trading systems for ETF market making desks.
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Citadel Securities: Seizing the Blockchain at the Speed of Light [Case Study]
Examining what a high-frequency trading firm's infrastructure advantages mean for blockchain markets. Written for the Harvard Business Analytics Program.
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Coin: Decentralized Payments for Small Minority-Owned Businesses [Paper]
A Harvard Business Analytics Program proposal for a low-fee, blockchain-based mobile payments platform aimed at minority-owned small businesses — and the...