Sam Pich

• Contributing to applied AI R&D, analytics, and governance for internal public-sector AI tooling.
• Public-safe portfolio emphasis: usage and token-cost analytics, prompt analysis, governance thinking, and responsible internal-tool delivery.

• Automated weekly executive KPI reporting from Microsoft Forms into Power Automate, Excel, and Python/Quarto workflows, reducing manual compilation from 5+ hours/week to minutes of review.
• Built registration analytics by office, country, attendance, and trend breakdowns for VP-level visibility on the 8th Annual IP Data & Research Conference, the largest edition to that date with 400+ attendees representing IP offices across 40+ countries.

RITC Trading Competition Platform

Python, NumPy, SciPy, SQLite, REST · Dec 2025 – Feb 2026

• Built the solo volatility-case platform for the Rotman International Trading Competition, pricing 20 options contracts with Black-Scholes, detecting theoretical-value mispricings, and placing 9th of 38 global teams.
• Engineered modular trading engine for REST ingestion, news parsing, option-state tracking, Greeks/pricing, LP portfolio optimization, order execution, delta hedging, and risk-limit checks.
• Logged each tick with SQLite/CSV audit trails for post-session review; contributed to 15th overall in a global university trading competition spanning 36 universities.

AI Home Server, Memory & Messaging Platform

Raspberry Pi 5, Debian ARM64, Rust, Qdrant, Mem0, Hermes, Docker, systemd

• Operate a 4 GB Raspberry Pi 5 as an AI-agent and messaging server with Hermes workflows, Matrix/Discord gateways, Docker services, scheduled automations, and a Mem0 OSS semantic-memory layer.
• Compiled Qdrant 1.18.2 natively from Rust source to resolve a jemalloc incompatibility with the Pi kernel’s 16 KB memory pages, preserving full release optimizations with temporary build swap.
• Configured local on-disk vector storage, remote extraction and embeddings, supervised services, bounded memory failures, and cross-session recall; migrated the broader platform from AWS EC2 and routed 5,000+ messages.

CFA Institute Research Challenge

Team Captain, Lightspeed Commerce (TSX: LSPD)

• Led equity research on Lightspeed Commerce; issued a contrarian SELL with a $12 price target versus street consensus, supported by valuation, Form 40-F analysis, and primary merchant research.
• Identified a potential $600M goodwill-impairment risk through Form 40-F analysis and primary SMB research, interviewing operators to test merchant sentiment against management narratives.

Telfer Asset Management League

Alternatives Analyst, Multi-Asset Portfolio Management

• Selected for analyst cohort managing a simulated 60/35/5 endowment portfolio with a 6% real return target; source alternatives via Bloomberg and Morningstar and present Buy/Hold/Sell recommendations using Sharpe, Sortino, and drawdown analysis.

uOttawa Trading Club

President; Bloomberg & RITC Team Lead

• Lead algorithmic-trading workshops, competition preparation, and team tryouts for Bloomberg and Rotman International Trading Competition events.
• Founding uOttawa's Bloomberg Global Trading Challenge team, coordinating setup with the finance lab supervisor to build a repeatable university trading program.