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What I'm doing now.

A snapshot of what's taking up my attention right now — not a CV, not a roadmap, just the current state. Inspired by Derek Sivers' /now page idea.

Last updated 2026-06-29

Where I am

Cape Town, on the southern peninsula.

Quietly enjoying suburbia.

What I'm working on

A few things at once.

At Prescient Investment Management: a cloud implementation of the medallion architecture, as part of the broader transformation work — migration, re-architecting, data architecture, quantitative best practice.

After hours: revamping this site and the platform behind it (app.louisbecker.dev, when it lands). Trying to get the blog-writing thing to actually stick — mostly so I remember things later.

Also dipping a toe back into quantitative tooling after a few years on the platform side.

What I'm writing about

Leadership, the tech I'm working with, and the intersection of data and software — what it means to treat data as software. Recent posts →

What I'm reading

  • Fight Less, Win More — Jonathan B. Smith & Derek Gaunt
  • Quantitative Portfolio Management — Michael Isichenko
  • Asterix & Obelix — Goscinny & Uderzo
  • Fifty Things That Made the Modern Economy — Tim Harford

Not on the list right now

Anything that would take me away from the threads above. New side projects for their own sake, new frameworks I don't need yet, conferences. The list is full enough.

About this page. This is a /now page — a small web convention started by Derek Sivers. It says what I'm doing currently, not what I've done historically. I'll update it whenever life changes. If it hasn't changed in a few months, that probably means I forgot.
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