ricky@rickycircelli:~$ whoami
hi, i’m ricky.
role=student-athlete | focus=finance/data-science | interest=fintech
ricky@rickycircelli:~$ ls links/
ricky@rickycircelli:~$ cat status.txt
# learning, building, and documenting projects while competing for south carolina men’s track & field
ricky@rickycircelli:~$ cat experience.log
Ally Financial — Quantitative Modeling Intern
Summer 2026 · Charlotte, NC
> built an end-to-end ml credit risk model for auto lending across 200k+ applications + 2k+ variables
> applied reject inference, iv analysis, and correlation reduction to refine a high-dimensional variable set
> trained + evaluated xgboost, lightgbm, catboost, and random forest, validating with auc, ks, and shap
stack: python · snowflake · sql
Varsity Stack — Founder
2026–Present · Columbia, SC
> founded an ai-powered athlete supplement intelligence platform, leading product, engineering, and gtm
> shipped full-stack mobile + web products with claude code and llm apis
> top 5 finalist in the sec startup competition; 1,000+ downloads and recurring subscription revenue
stack: claude code · llm apis · supabase · railway
University of South Carolina — Finance + Data Science (GPA: 4.0)
2024–Present · Columbia, SC
> honors college
> carolina finance and investment association
> gamecock artificial intelligence and machine learning
honors: president’s list (4x) · csc academic all-district · sec academic honor roll
coursework: statistical methods · applied statisitcs · computing for data science · data analytics
Dubin Clark — Private Equity Intern
Summer 2024 · Jacksonville, FL
> Created one-pagers, diligence memos, and financial models in Excel; took notes during client calls
Ponte Vedra Inn & Club — Lifeguard
Mar 2023 – Aug 2023 · Ponte Vedra Beach, FL
> Monitored pool and beach areas to ensure guest safety and enforced facility rules
ricky@rickycircelli:~$ skills --matrix
LANGUAGES
███████░░░Python
██████░░░░SQL
██████░░░░R
ML
███████░░░XGBoost
███████░░░LightGBM
███████░░░CatBoost
███████░░░Scikit-learn
██████░░░░SHAP
█████░░░░░TensorFlow
GEN AI
███████░░░Claude API
██████░░░░OpenAI API
███████░░░Prompt Engineering
██████░░░░AI Agents
██████░░░░RAG
DATA
███████░░░Snowflake
███████░░░Pandas
███████░░░NumPy
███████░░░Power BI (PL-300)
███████░░░Excel
TOOLS
███████░░░Claude Code (CCA-F)
███████░░░Git / GitHub
██████░░░░AWS (Cloud Practitioner)
██████░░░░Supabase
██████░░░░Railway
ricky@rickycircelli:~$ echo $EMAIL