Nathaniel Houk is a founder, quant engineer, and multidisciplinary technologist with 17 years of experience building proprietary trading systems, AI-driven market models, and music-tech platforms. He has a rare blend of hands-on low-latency trading expertise—running options and futures desks and shipping C#/C++/FPGA trading engines—with entrepreneurial ventures including Tunistic Capital and Epsilon Records. Nate has seeded Web3 and blockchain startups like Chainalysis and Ripio, and recently led an AI-driven market-prediction win at Flow Traders while authoring open-source AI music generators on GitHub. His background couples summa cum laude computer engineering and advanced AI study with practical trading credentials (Series 24/56/7) and a studio-trained ear for electronic music production. Comfortable operating where finance, code, and creative culture intersect, he favors autonomy and builds self-sustaining systems that convert technical craft into ongoing edge.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at University of Southern California
Diploma of Education Music Production & Sound Engineering Music Technology, Diploma of Education Music Production & Sound Engineering Music Technology at Abbey Road Institute
Master of Science - MS Artificial Intelligence, Master of Science - MS Artificial Intelligence at Georgia Institute of Technology
YASS.ai - Team Orange's entry to the Flow AI Hackathon 2023
Contributions:8 releases, 148 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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