Hey, I'm Alex Brefeld.
This is my home on the internet.
Me
I'm a data scientist and quantitative financial analyst. While receiving my Bachelor's in Math and Master's in Finance I taught myself Python and SQL through web scraping, natural language processing, and building financial ETL pipelines.
During graduate school I served as a developer and editorial assistant for the Journal of Corporate Finance and interned at a hedge fund as a quantitative analyst. From 2022 through 2024 I traded for a Chicago proprietary trading firm where I made markets in ETFs. Most recently I developed web applications using Django as an entrepreneur and solo-developer.
I am
looking for work
in or around Denver, CO.
If your team is working on challenging projects, I'd love to meet up:
hello at abrefeld.anonaddy.com.
- I write up things that interest me on my blog, CuriosityArb.blog.
- You can find my code on my GitHub.
- Other things on my etc page.
Contact
Reach out and say hi at
hello at abrefeld.anonaddy.com.
I have no social media. If we were once connected through LinkedIn, I'd love to stay in touch! Shoot me an email so we can reconnect.
Why
I built this site in order to maintain a more personal digital presence - untethered from the plastic solutions offered by standard, "social" platforms. I really enjoy the small, independent web and want to take part in it. This site is firstly a place for me to tinker with minimal web design and secondly a way to showcase things about myself.
How
This is a static site made with only HTML and CSS. I write each page in vim because I enjoy doing so and it keeps me mindful of the simple aesthetic I'm shooting for. I do not use any trackers or 3rd party resources. The site is hosted on a VPS running OpenBSD and deployed using rsync.
I don't currently use any JavaScript - not because I'm necessarily against it but because there's been no need so far. One fun use case would be embedding some of my p5.js generative art sketches. For now I just include some images on my generative art page.
Special thanks to Derek Sivers for the inspiration and tools in his piece on Tech Independence.