I applied with previous financial startup experience and financial / risk management experience in a bank. Contact info is in my profile. I’d really like to get back into work at a startup.

The return to office / hybrid mandates are all about control. For me, I get more done at home than I do in the office. On days I work from home, I’m more likely to sign on early and sign off later because I’m not commuting; when I’m in the office, it’s a hard cut-off at 5pm to catch the train home. Also, when I’m at home, I don’t have incessant coworker chatter going on around me to distract or irritate me. Working from home is a benefit to my employer, and they are just too blind to see that.

I’ve recently come across this library in a book I picked up over the holidays. The book is called ALM Modeling and Balance Sheet Optimization: A Mathematical Approach to Banking. If you’re looking for an interesting domain to apply optimization theory towards, ALM and balance sheet optimization has a good set of problems to work on. I have not worked for a bank that takes optimization to the extreme discussed in this book, so it was a fresh view on what has become somewhat routine work.