CS and Economics at Harvard, class of 2029. Founder of Appier. Game theory, quant finance, medical devices.
playredblack.com · appiertech.com · LinkedIn · nbrauner@college.harvard.edu
Branded mobile and web apps for independent schools, built on Veracross. Live at 2 schools with 5k+ daily users. One React Native and TypeScript codebase ships to iOS, Android, web and macOS, with an isolated backend per school. (Private repo.)
A hidden-information card game I invented, now live multiplayer at playredblack.com. Four papers: an exact count of its 2.4 × 10³³ information sets, a CFR+ solve (the algorithm behind poker solvers), and statistically tested bounds on how exploitable it is.
Fine-tuned Qwen3-8B using the Lean 4 compiler as an exact reward, so there is no learned reward model to game. GSM8K 79.0% → 86.5% (n = 200, p = 0.0046).
Automated insulin delivery. Built Favorite Foods for Loop as a Tidepool intern, and have contributed to open-source Loop since 2022. I run it for my own type 1 diabetes. Interned on Dexcom's G7 mobile team in 2026.
Commits: tidepool-org · LoopKit/Loop · LoopKit
Also: fifth-and-flip (card-trick protocol) · PikesvilleOpportunity (econometrics paper) · HideAndCSeek50 (geolocation game) · ActivityDetector (motion classification) · NoahCoin (cryptocurrency from scratch) · TidemanVisualizer (ranked-pairs voting) · Happiness Hacker and Know Me (iOS apps)
Python TypeScript Swift C SQL · CFR+, equilibrium computation, Monte Carlo, RL



