Aidan began at Sezzle (NASDAQ: SEZL) in 2019 as a data science intern, when the company had around 50 people and a valuation under $50M. He rose to Head of AI/ML, leading a globally distributed team of about 15 he personally interviewed and hired. His work spanned automating the data side of the company's debt facility with Goldman/Bastion, building all the data pipelines for financial reporting and FP&A, and developing ML models for risk underwriting, forecasting, recommender systems, and GenAI. About a year ago he left to found QuantLink AI, whose mission is to become the premier vertically integrated data and AI platform for global markets and investing — think HuggingFace for financial data, Tableau for earnings decks, Hex for quant workflows, and Excel with any of its datasets integrated in a click. Its team of 10, recruited from top universities and companies nationwide, is building the best data science platform for investment professionals.