Hi. I'm Vic.
I'm interested in how things work, why they don't, and what happens when an interesting question turns into something worth building. This site is for the questions that don't neatly belong anywhere else.
What I do.
I trained as a mathematician and completed a PhD before finding my way into quantitative finance, technology and entrepreneurship. Over time I've worked on problems involving financial markets, digital assets, regulated infrastructure and the practical business of turning ideas into products.
Much of my professional work has been in capital markets, particularly the technology behind issuing, holding and settling securities. I have helped develop digital financial infrastructure, worked with financial institutions on complex products and spent a fair amount of time discovering that the difficult part of innovation is usually making it work in practice.
Outside my institutional role, I'm involved in independent ventures spanning strategy, technology, and writing. They each have their own home, because not every idea needs to live in one place.
And that's the reason for this website. I'm happy to explore questions where I have no particular expertise, provided I'm honest about the uncertainty and willing to change my mind.
Think. Build. Question.
Finding the structure
A habit of taking things apart, examining assumptions and looking for the simpler idea underneath.
Making the abstract real
Building companies and products, and learning that the real world rarely respects the elegance of an initial theory.
Exploring outside the lane
Questions about science, technology, society, behaviour and whatever happens to send me down another rabbit hole.
A little background.
The professional part of my story is mostly about financial markets, emerging technology and building things that need to work beyond a slide deck. That has included building companies, developing products and helping bring new technology into established financial markets.
This isn't meant to be a full CV. There are better places for that. But it explains some of the perspectives I bring to the questions on this site.
Publication links currently lead to the original website; individual papers can be migrated next.