Hi.
For those that didn't hear, I resigned from Symmetry in September
and my last day was a couple of weeks back.
I don't have any concrete plans yet, but I've agreed not to do
anything in the hedge fund world for quite some time and I've
also agreed not to hire anyone that's an employee or consultant
for Symmetry.
Out of little acorns do great oaks grow and the best beginnings
are often not much, just a little hobby project. I sat down in
early 2014 and wrote down what I called hedge fund in a box -
what are the things I am going to need to build so I never have
to worry about them again. Not always quite in that form, but
it's remarkable how many of those little beginnings ended up
coming to fruition in what was an 11bn hedge fund by the time I
left.
With that said for now I don't have much, just a few ideas about
how to solve some of my own problems, knowing there's just a
chance they might be useful down the line to others.
I'm paying out of my own pocket and my budget is modest for now
so this isn't going to be an opportunity interesting for someone
currently embedded in big tech !
You can speak to some of the people I hired at Symmetry - if this
ever becomes anything then I will pay well to very well over
time. But you shouldn't bet on it becoming anything at all. If
you do good work but nothing comes of it and you're interested in
getting a job in finance I can help you navigate that world and
the experience may help you achieve your goals. But I am not
sure I would recommend most jobs in finance.
What kind of work? Initially some scripting in D to integrate
things and a little bit of work with LLM embeddings and fine
tuning, STT transcription, classifiers, parsing. Some
presentation work - gui or web I don't mind.
What kind of person? You need to be a talented hacker that's
interested in learning and accomplishing things. You don't need
an impressive CV - my best documentation Dev hire was a Spanish
baker with no enterprise experience. (Just the kernel, lol).
What's the vision? Well I will say more when I can but how
people do work today in organisations is broken and it's
miserable and I would like to play a part in transforming that.
Full remote is ideal as I live on an island. If you happen to
live near Rennes, Saint Malo or Amsterdam then it's easier for me
to visit you.
Let me know any questions.
laeeth+reboot at laeeth.com
