Ricky Circelli

Student-athlete at the University of South Carolina studying Finance and Data Science, focused on fintech, machine learning, and building data-driven products.

Experience

• Ally Financial — Quantitative Modeling Intern (Summer 2026, Charlotte, NC). Built an end-to-end machine learning credit risk model for auto lending across 200k+ applications and 2k+ variables using Python, Snowflake, and SQL; trained and evaluated XGBoost, LightGBM, CatBoost, and Random Forest models with AUC, KS, and SHAP.
• Varsity Stack — Founder (2026–Present, Columbia, SC). AI-powered athlete supplement intelligence platform; full-stack mobile and web products built with Claude Code and LLM APIs; top 5 finalist in the SEC Startup Competition with 1,000+ downloads and recurring subscription revenue.
• University of South Carolina — Finance + Data Science, Honors College, 4.0 GPA (2024–Present). President's List (4x), CSC Academic All-District, SEC Academic Honor Roll.
• Dubin Clark — Private Equity Intern (Summer 2024, Jacksonville, FL). Created one-pagers, diligence memos, and financial models.

Projects

• Spending Tracker — Spending Tracker is a secure personal finance dashboard that syncs multiple accounts through Plaid and visualizes metrics such as income, expenses, subscriptions, net worth, etc. (Python, SQL, Postgres, Streamlit, Plaid API, Pandas, Matplotlib)
• NCCA Dashboard — An interactive web dashboard that scrapes + analyzes NCAA athlete race results from TFRRS.org (Python, Streamlit, Selenium, BeautifulSoup, Pandas, Matplotlib, Seaborn)

Skills

Python, SQL, R, XGBoost, LightGBM, CatBoost, Scikit-learn, SHAP, TensorFlow, Claude API, OpenAI API, prompt engineering, AI agents, RAG, Snowflake, Pandas, NumPy, Power BI (PL-300), Excel, Claude Code, Git, GitHub, AWS Cloud Practitioner, Supabase, Railway.

Contact

Email: rickycircelli@gmail.com · GitHub · LinkedIn · Resume