A bit of background
A little about me.
I’m Daman. I like work where technical questions meet real-world decisions.
I’ve worked with econometric models and construction drawings, research code and investment memos. That mix of research, business, and building shapes how I approach a problem.
The path so far
01 · Space settlement design
Start with a big question.
In high school, my team won first prize in the NASA/NSS Space Settlement Contest. We designed a whole orbital settlement, from homes and artificial gravity to power generation. I worked on the orbital structure, energy plan, and commercial model. It was an early lesson in thinking about how the pieces fit together.
02 · UBC + UCL
Follow your curiosity.
At UBC, I studied finance, math, philosophy, history, and political science. I researched urban economics and municipal bankruptcies, built financial models at Canalyst, and spent a semester at UCL in London. I also made close friends and took a lot of long walks around campus.
03 · Chard
Learn where it matters.
At Chard , I helped build homes and communities. I worked on acquisitions, underwriting, debt structures, and asset management, alongside executives, banks, brokers, and operating teams. It taught me to connect the model to the drawings, the contracts, and the practical decisions behind a building.
04 · University of Toronto
Be rigorous about the answer.
I moved to Toronto for a master’s in economics in the Research Emphasis stream. I focused on causal inference, econometrics, machine learning, and computational economics. Writing research papers and studying alongside PhD students made me more disciplined about how I build, test, and interpret models.
05 · Today
I verify research code and data for the Journal of Political Economy, work on transit data with Sciences Po, and contribute to PyFixest, an open-source econometrics library.
I’m looking for work where I can get close to the context, work through the data, and build something useful around it.