Alexander He Meng

Toronto, Canada

I build software that refuses to guess.

Co-Founder and CTO of Pearchy. Computer Science at the University of Toronto, Dean's List.

6 / 16
hackathons won / entered
878
logged trading sessions
5.3M
simulated paths
36x
faster pipelines

01

Now

On a gap year from Computer Science at the University of Toronto (Dean's List) to build Pearchy full time. I trade NQ futures and journal every session; 878 logged. Nothing ships on a guess: not a scan verdict, not a trade.

02

Selected Work

01 Pearchy Pre-launch

Scans grocery labels for food allergies and answers Compatible, Avoid, or Uncertain; when it cannot be sure, it fails closed.

Co-Founder & CTO

02 Helix Visit

A genomic IDE built on Evo 2 and AlphaFold 3.

Yale YHack 2026, Personal AI Agent winner

03 SceneOS Visit

A spoken idea goes in; an agentic pipeline returns a finished short film.

LA Hacks 2026

04 The Duplex Splatter Source

A capital-scaling model for funded futures accounts, simulated across 5.3 million paths.

Open source

05 Ontario Ministry of Health Internship

Rebuilt the analytics benchmarking stack and left the pipelines 36x faster.

Application Programmer

03

Shelf

I log books like trades. One line each.

01

Never Split the Difference

Chris Voss

I used this on real negotiations before I finished reading it. No-oriented questions work exactly as advertised.

02

The Laws of Human Nature

Robert Greene

Greene's best. Read the person first, then the deal.

03

The 48 Laws of Power

Robert Greene

Half warning label, half instruction manual. Know which half you are reading.

04

Reality Transurfing

Vadim Zeland

Strange book, real effect. I trade better when nothing is precious.

05

The Psychology of Money

Morgan Housel

Says in 200 pages what my trading journal took 878 entries to teach me.

06

The Psychology of Human Misjudgment

Charlie Munger

Twenty-four ways your own head lies to you. I reread it before I size up.

07

Rich Dad Poor Dad

Robert Kiyosaki

The one that started it. I read it too young to argue and it stuck.