Real Estate Capital Allocation Platform
Designed and built the underwriting engine and capital allocation platform for a real estate investment platform.
Context & Problem
A real estate tech company wanted to move from manual spreadsheet-based underwriting to an automated system that could handle complex deal structures and allocate capital intelligently.
Role & Responsibilities
Founding engineer. Designed system architecture, built core underwriting engine, led technical hiring.
Architecture & Key Decisions
Built a modular underwriting system with pluggable valuation models, used optimization algorithms for capital allocation across deal portfolios.
Impact & Outcomes
Reduced underwriting time from 3 weeks to 3 days, improved deal quality metrics by 40%, enabled 10x increase in deal flow processing capacity.
What I'd Do Differently
Domain expertise matters enormously. Pair closely with domain experts to understand deal dynamics. Start simple (linear models) before reaching for sophisticated optimization.