Aaryan PatelSystems Observatory

LIVE EVIDENCE SURFACE

I build systems that survive faults, bad data, and dishonest benchmarks.

Build the mechanism. Attack the assumptions. Measure against a real baseline. Publish where it loses.

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GUIDED SIGNAL // 90 SEC

QNT RECRUITER SIGNAL

Quant / Finance

Financial data, market structure, and differentiable pricing.

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OBSERVATORY // BUILD 01 SOURCE BACKED
Measured systems23
Test functions806
Live labs4
Languages8

No page-load API. No third-party stats card. Every claim is committed with its source.

Currently building: Evidence infrastructure for technical portfolios

A single source of truth that generates the recruiter site, GitHub profile surfaces, proof cards, social artwork, and resume.Open source

VERIFICATION THEATER

Break the system. Watch the invariant hold.

Each 60-second brief replays published test scenarios and benchmark checkpoints. It is evidence playback, not simulated production telemetry.

REPLAY // raft-mvcc // dbd5398Leader isolation and log repair
healthy
SYSTEM TOPOLOGY
T+00Five nodes agree

Node 1 leads a healthy five-node cluster; the committed prefix matches on every node.

SCENARIO

Isolate the leader, allow an unsafe proposal on the minority side, elect a majority leader, then heal the partition.

INVARIANT UNDER TESTA minority leader may append locally but cannot advance the committed index.
PUBLISHED RESULTThe majority fails over in 11 logical ticks and the old leader's conflicting suffix is repaired after healing.
10 / 60 SEC
Open evidence drawer

Interactive replays are deterministic narrative checkpoints derived from published tests and benchmark tables. They are not live production telemetry.

Commit
dbd5398
Benchmark
make clean test benchmark
Verified
2026-07-31

RECRUITER ENTRY ROUTES

Choose the signal that matches the role.

Each route is a shareable view with three high-signal systems, proof methods, limitations, and reproduction commands.

Showing the Quant / Finance recruiter route.

ARCHITECTURE CONSTELLATION

Twelve systems. One verification spine.

The map groups projects by the engineering question they answer, then routes every claim back through the same evidence contract.

EVIDENCEcommand · source · oracle · limit

ACTIVE SIGNAL // QNT

Quant / Finance

Financial data, market structure, and differentiable pricing.

Python

edgar-mcp

SEC EDGAR tools with bounded context, caching, and global pacing.

138xwarm 10-K read vs cold fetch

32 offline tests; peak request windows stay at the SEC 10 requests-per-second ceiling.

VERIFIED
Inspect proof chain
Problem
Filings are large, issuer identities are ambiguous, and naive concurrent clients can violate the SEC request ceiling.
Mechanism
Identity resolution, filing history, bounded text windows, XBRL discovery, per-host cache validation, and a global request pacer.
Attack
Cold and warm reads, burst traffic, identity collisions, overflow history, and malformed iXBRL.
Failure boundary
Public EDGAR data only; it is not an investment recommendation or a complete accounting model.
git clone https://github.com/asp53826/edgar-mcp && cd edgar-mcp && make test
Open live lab

Python

aad-greeks

Reverse-mode automatic differentiation over Monte Carlo paths.

5.6e-16maximum analytic error

19 tests; all Greeks cost 1.7-2.4x the price across a 50x change in input count.

VERIFIED
Inspect proof chain
Problem
Bumping every pricing input scales linearly and finite differences collapse near discontinuous payoffs.
Mechanism
A tape-based reverse-mode AD engine with pricers written once and differentiated instead of hand-derived.
Attack
Analytic Black-Scholes formulas, central differences across bump sizes, and discontinuous-payoff failure cases.
Failure boundary
Pathwise derivatives return a wrong zero delta for an unsmoothed digital payoff; the live lab exposes it.
git clone https://github.com/asp53826/aad-greeks && cd aad-greeks && make test
Open live lab

Python

lob-market-making

Price-time matching and market making under toxic flow.

7xnaive inventory deviation

36 tests; naive quoting wins raw PnL and loses every risk-adjusted metric.

VERIFIED
Inspect proof chain
Problem
Raw PnL can make a strategy look strong while inventory exposure and adverse selection carry the risk.
Mechanism
Limit order book, post-only orders, informed flow, three quoting strategies, and exact PnL decomposition.
Attack
Paired 12-seed strategy comparison with spread, inventory, and toxicity held explicit.
Failure boundary
Synthetic order flow without exchange latency, queue-position uncertainty, or real fees.
git clone https://github.com/asp53826/lob-market-making && cd lob-market-making && make test
Open live lab

THREE FLAGSHIP PROOF PASSPORTS

Claim, mechanism, attack, result, reproduce.

The failure boundary is part of the card because knowing what a result does not prove is engineering evidence.

BENCHMARK TIME MACHINE

The correction is part of the result.

Published milestones preserve the baseline, the failure that invalidated it, and the corrected measurement.

  1. 01
    dbd5398Mechanism release

    Targeted invariants plus a seeded failover campaign.

    598 assertions
  2. 02
    dbd5398Published failover

    Five-node leader isolation and majority re-election.

    11 logical ticks
  3. 03
    b4eef31Verification surface

    Repository metadata now exposes the same correctness path.

    CI badge added
Verified 2026-07-31make clean test benchmarkRepository

ENGINEERING POSTMORTEMS

The flattering answer was not the final answer.

Three short records of a plausible result being invalidated by a stronger measurement.

raft-mvccdbd5398
What failed
An isolated leader can still accept a local append, which looks successful if commit state is ignored.
Signal
The test tracks commit advancement separately from proposal acceptance.
Correction
Only a current-term entry replicated to a majority can advance the leader's commit index.
Engineering lesson
Availability-looking behavior is not safety evidence; the invariant must be observed at the commit boundary.
edgar-mcp825052d
What failed
The first implementation looked compliant and cached because its abstractions reported tokens and hits.
Signal
Wire-level one-second request windows and transferred-byte counters contradicted the abstraction-level metrics.
Correction
Replace burst capacity with strict pacing and assign cache freshness rules per EDGAR host.
Engineering lesson
Measure the wire, not the class name: a RateLimiter and Cache do not prove rate limiting or caching.
track-fusion099601b
What failed
RMSE and localization-only views make JPDA look like the better crossing strategy.
Signal
OSPA cardinality cost reveals marginal clutter tracks that soft association keeps alive.
Correction
Publish localization and cardinality separately, then compare the total under paired seeds.
Engineering lesson
A better estimator can be a worse tracking system when the metric ignores existence errors.

EVIDENCE DESK

Ask the work. Get the source.

This is deterministic manifest search—not a generative chatbot. Answers can only use committed project claims, commands, methods, and limitations.

MATCH // raft-mvcc598 assertions across seeded faults

Seeded partitions, stale candidates, minority leaders, conflicting transactions, tombstones, and invalid histories. Verification methods: linearizability, fault injection, differential invariants. Five-node failover completes in 11 simulator ticks while minority leaders cannot commit.

linearizability · fault injection · differential invariantsREADME Primary source Manifest

SYSTEM COMPARATOR

Compare mechanisms, not logos.

Put any two public systems on the same evidence axes.

Evidence axisraft-mvccedgar-mcp
ProblemA replicated database can acknowledge writes while violating safety under partitions, leader changes, or transaction conflicts.Filings are large, issuer identities are ambiguous, and naive concurrent clients can violate the SEC request ceiling.
MechanismRaft elections and conflict repair combined with MVCC snapshots, serializable OCC, safe-point GC, and P-compositional linearizability checking.Identity resolution, filing history, bounded text windows, XBRL discovery, per-host cache validation, and a global request pacer.
Strongest proof598 assertions across seeded faults138x warm 10-K read vs cold fetch
Verificationlinearizability · fault injection · differential invariantsrate-limit enforcement · cache benchmark · fixture tests
Failure boundaryAn in-process simulator: no sockets, fsync, snapshots, membership changes, or multi-range transactions.Public EDGAR data only; it is not an investment recommendation or a complete accounting model.

PROOF METHOD INDEX

Evidence has a method.

Every headline result names the mechanism used to challenge it.

ATE and RPE1 FAISS baseline1 OSPA1 PnL attribution1 analytic oracle1 analytic theory1 benchmark1 cache benchmark1 complexity benchmark1 concurrency invariants1 cost model1 deterministic simulation1 differential invariants1 differential testing1 double dissociation1 exact recall1 fault injection1 finite differences1 fixture tests1 ground-truth trajectory1 impulse response1 linearizability2 memory accounting1 motion sweep1 mutation testing1 paired seeds2 parameter sweep1 rate-limit enforcement1 regime sweep1 scalar oracle1 scaling sweep1 scheduler benchmark1 token invariance1 torch.distributed oracle1

INTERACTIVE RESULTS

Drive the variables yourself.

Four static-first labs with every figure traceable to the benchmark that produced it.

OPEN CHANNEL

Inspect the work. Challenge the benchmark.

Computer Science undergraduate at the University of Georgia. Automation and analytics at MP Equipment.

Aaryan Patel // Systems Observatory

Static-first. Source-backed. MIT-licensed systems.