Financial Engineering · AI-Native Data Systems · Event-Driven Research
Nicholas Wagner
I build research infrastructure for turning messy public information—filings, central-bank communications,
market data, and technical documents—into structured signals, dashboards, and decision-support systems.
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Claude Code backend/model benchmark on Terminal-Bench/Harbor with adjusted cost accounting,
pass-rate frontier analysis, and nonproductive spend tracking.
15 valid full-suite arms and 900 benchmark attempts
Cost vs. pass-rate frontier with interactive hover details
Adjusted cost, cost per clean success, and unclean-spend accounting
LLM-assisted pipeline for acquiring Federal Reserve communications, generating structured monetary-policy
sentiment scores, and visualizing sparse, irregular central-bank communication signals for portfolio research.
FOMC release scraping and normalization
OpenAI Batch API scoring jobs
Structured score families for rates, inflation, employment, credit, growth, surprise, and policy phase
SolidJS/ECharts dashboard for sponsor-facing analysis
Local-first SEC filing infrastructure for turning filings, exhibits, and event disclosures into reproducible
research artifacts and structured event signals.
py-sec-edgar-m and SEC/EDGAR ingestion workflows
Deterministic document identities
Raw and parsed artifact tracking
Event extraction and downstream research workflows
AI-Native Event-Driven Hedge Fund Research OS
Prototype architecture for agent-assisted investment research: ingest documents, extract structured events,
generate trade hypotheses, run backtests, and write experiment postmortems.
Filing-to-event extraction
Trade-candidate generation
Backtest and attribution workflow
Reflection/postmortem agent design
The Wagner Valkyries Project
Fan-augmented ground-effect vehicle concept designed as a physical platform for validating controllable
downforce, active chassis control, and force-aware vehicle-system IP.
Engineering Mindset Across Software and Physical Systems
My work sits at the intersection of financial engineering, software systems, and physical prototyping. Before
focusing on AI-native finance and data infrastructure, I co-founded Opentrons Labworks and helped build early
liquid-handling robotics systems, including firmware and Python API work for the OT-1.
That builder background now informs my approach to research systems: make the pipeline observable,
reproducible, and useful enough that others can test and extend it.
Published Materials
Documents
Resume
Canonical web resume with cleaned public-facing content.
A sponsor-facing technical report covering Federal Reserve communication scoring, FOMC ingestion, OpenAI
Batch API processing, score materialization, visualization, limitations, and continuation recommendations.