Builder · Fintech & AI

I build production systems alone.

By day: payments and fraud at a fintech. By night: a live trading bot, an AI assistant in my Meta glasses, a RAG over 11 years of my own messages.

Gabe Kagan

Hello, I'm Gabe.

I'm a product manager in payments and fraud — ten years across underwriting, risk decisioning, funds availability, and the systems that decide whether transactions clear. I work at fintech companies of varying scale.

Outside the day job I build things end-to-end, by myself. The Kalshi bot below is 150K+ lines of Python running live on a VPS I manage. The personal knowledge base reads my own messages and answers questions about them. The Meta glasses see what I see. I lean heavily on AI coding tools — I think the most valuable engineers right now are the ones who use them to ship production systems alone, and that's the craft I'm trying to sharpen.

10 yrs
Payments
3 live
Side projects
Real
Capital in market

Selected Work

Live products and personal builds. Each card links to a deeper writeup.

Kalshi Prediction Market Bot — live performance
Live · 2026

Kalshi Prediction Market Bot

Automated trading system for CFTC-regulated event contracts. EGARCH volatility model, Kelly-sized positions, calibrated probabilities — running live with real capital.

VisionClaw — AI assistant running on Meta smart glasses
Personal · Apr 2026

VisionClaw — JARVIS in my glasses

Real-time AI assistant on my Oakley Meta HSTN glasses. Streams what I see and hear to Gemini Live, which talks back and can take actions on my behalf. Built on the open-source VisionClaw + Meta Wearables DAT SDK.

Personal Knowledge Base — pipeline diagram
Personal · Apr 2026

Personal Knowledge Base

A RAG over 11 years of my own iMessages, WhatsApp, and email — 168,000 messages, queryable in plain English. Then a second pass that distills it all into a written portrait. 100% local if you want it.

Builder first. Consultant when it fits.

I take a few engagements a quarter when the problem's interesting. Here's where I help most.

AI-accelerated shipping

Your team has ideas but ships slowly. I help integrate AI coding tools into your dev cycle so you go from prototype to production in days, not months. Works best for startups and internal-tools teams that need velocity.

Fintech systems

Ten years across payments, fraud, and trading — production risk-decisioning at a proptech payments company, fraud systems in fintech, and a live Kalshi bot running solo. I can advise on product decisions where payments meet ML, or get hands-on with risk and fraud work.

Stuck problems

Sometimes you don't need a team — you need someone to read the code, understand the constraint, and propose a fix. I'll spend a few hours, write it up, give you a path. No retainer.

I take a few of these a quarter.

Book a 30-min call

or email me@gabekagan.io

Experience & Education

My professional history lives on LinkedIn — full timeline across payments, fraud, and product.

View on LinkedIn

Let's connect.

me@gabekagan.io