Kyle Free's Blog

Hello all,

The project is going well so far and I really enjoy working with my team and our project mentor. I hope to continue to learn a lot and build some confidence with building cool useful things so that I can continue to do it. I am getting very close to only having 2 last semesters in my undergraduate degree. I have all of my classes planned to fully finish out my degree and I am really excited. It has been a long journey, and I have worked full-time through nearly all of it. It will be nice for me to have a little bit of time of just work and then having leisure time instead of going straight into doing school work before I go to the gym. I am hoping it will all be worth it. However, I don’t think I will be able to relax much. I have come to realize that I am what is seemingly hard wired to make progress, work etc. all of the time. Maybe this can change, maybe I don’t want it to. I am not sure, but I am happy to get one step closer to my undergraduate degree!

I am very happy with the way the group project is going. My team is great, and I really like our mission of building a democratized algorithm based trading platform. It is the perfect intersection of investing/finance with computer science. I have been investing since I turned 18, but very passively – doing a buy and hold strategy as I deem day trading to be equivalent to gambling. However, I had not previously given algorithm based trading a fair chance, it is easy to put holes in the theory, but over the years I saw a few articles about how a certain fund perfected it and had enormous returns, beating out nearly everyone. I still stick by following the greats of Warren Buffett, Charlie Munger and Peter Lynch, but I do have an interest to run a small portfolio with an optimized algorithmic model for dun and to learn along the way. I am hoping during this project with my team lead I will learn a lot of valuable information to do this more effectively.

Hello all,

This first post is going to be an introduction/about me page:

My name is Kyle Free and I am a senior computer science student here at OSU. I currently work remotely at a mid sized cybersecurity start up as a security engineer. Outside of school and work I enjoy working out, reading, listening to Lex Fridman or the All in Podcast, investing, playing video games, hanging out with my dogs and watching movies.

I am looking forward to working on an industry project to continue to get experience working at different companies, with different people and with different tools. My current job was my first internship and my first tech job and I am looking forward to being able to contrast this with other companies to learn more and grow as a SWE.

Peace,

Kyle Free

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