About

I was born in Los Angeles and grew up in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. I'm now a computer engineering and economics student at the University of Michigan and a co-founder of Presto, a three-person company that finds music royalties the MLC and SoundExchange hold for the wrong party, or for nobody, and claims them. I built the matching engine, the DDEX ingester, and the claim workflow.

The thread through my work is systems where being wrong costs money: liquidation engines, royalty ledgers, protocol invariants. I like fetching every position from public data, calibrating on the events that actually happened, and writing down the recommendation. My risk work so far covers Coinbase's on-chain loan book, Summer.fi's stop-loss automation, and OpenEden's tokenized T-bill products.

I also build hardware when the lesson needs to be physical. The drone came out of driving on Bulawayo's roads. The TTL computer came out of teaching computer architecture without a lab.

Off the clock: American football and soccer, football tactics, cooking, and books on design and philosophy. I reply to every email: rahil@bhavanzim.com.