Tom Pickel

Tom Pickel

CAIA, FDP

Where Investment Expertise Meets Engineering

Pickel Fintech combines investment analysis expertise with hands-on software engineering. Both disciplines live under one roof.

Over a decade of analyzing alternative investments for institutional investors. Years of building data systems, NLP pipelines and quantitative tools from scratch. The CAIA and FDP designations anchor each side.

The solutions reflect that convergence: a portfolio optimization platform built on proprietary algorithms, a quarterly intelligence report that decomposes 8,000+ SEC filings into structured equity flow signals and an NLP classification system validated at 94% accuracy across 17+ languages. Each emerged from the same foundation - deep domain knowledge paired with the engineering capability to bring it to life.

The advisory practice draws on the same combination. When we deliver portfolio diagnostics, data pipelines, or decision support, both the investment judgment and the technical implementation come from the same team.

CAIA - Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst
FDP - Financial Data Professional