# Cameron (@cameron.stream) Profile: https://sifa.id/p/cameron.stream Headline: Letta AI | Ex Stanford GSB | PhD in Finance ## About I work at Letta. We make machines that learn. I'm a recovering financial economist, where I focused on computational methods. ## Career - **Member of Technical Staff at Letta** (Jun 2026 - Present) Working on: \- The end-to-end product experience for Letta \- Our autonomous internal software factory \- The product <-> R&D pipeline - **Founding Developer Relations Engineer at Letta** (Jul 2025 - Jun 2026) San Francisco, CA I help developers use Letta, an agent service for building AI systems with memory. Or, in the words of our interns, I am an "erector of tomorrow's cognition machines". - **Developer Relations Engineer at .Txt** (Aug 2024 - Jun 2025) I help people use language models that produce predictable, structured output. - **Postdoctoral Researcher at Stanford University Graduate School of Business** (Sep 2022 - Aug 2024) Palo Alto, California, US \- Developed sophisticated, high-performance statistical models on 18tb of data to accurately infer consumer willingness to pay for news content, enabling data-driven pricing strategies. \- Contributed computational infrastructure to estimate complex bid functions for auction-based bridge construction, resulting in a publication to a top economics journal (non-author, research assistance only). \- Optimized probabilistic model for insurance market analysis, increasing computational performance by 3-4x. - **Research Engineer at Turing.jl** (Sep 2018 - Jan 2024) Cambridge, England, GB \- Core developer on Turing.jl, an open-source probabilistic programming language with 2k GitHub stars. \- Built high-performance implementations of Metropolis-Hastings algorithms. \- Lead the development of significant refactorings of the end-user interface of Turing.jl. - **Visiting PHD Student at Stanford University Graduate School of Business** (Nov 2021 - Sep 2022) Stanford, California, US - **PHD Student at University of Oregon - Charles H. Lundquist College of Business** (Aug 2018 - Aug 2022) \- Wrote the dissertation "Parameter Uncertainty, Cashflow Betas, and Earnings Announcement Premia" applying Bayesian methods to determine how investors use firm fundamentals to learn about macroeconomic conditions. \- Received my PhD in finance in four years. \- My research focused on asset pricing, market microstructure, algorithmic trading, and models of information flows. \- Developed a novel, Bayesian model evaluating the role of fundamental firm performance and how investors can use that information to understand the macroeconomy. \- Implemented a suite of high-performance computing tools custom designed for my dissertation, evaluated on Stanford's Sherlock cluster. \- Designed a theoretical model of asymmetric information in commodities futures markets. \- Produced a high-performance data pipeline for cleaning and performing distributed inference on five terabytes of supermarket point-of-sale data. - **Software Developer at ACA Compliance Group** (Jan 2018 - Aug 2018) Jacksonville \- Transitioned to the software team after the company found out I had been writing VBA macros to automate my job, slashing my billable hours nearly in half. \- Wrote custom software in C# for our firm to use per client, reducing billable hours for current and future engagements by 10-30%. \- Saved the firm 10-25% in billable hours per engagement. \- Designed and implemented an anomaly detection system to flag portfolios with suspicious investment activity. - **Performance Analyst at ACA Compliance Group** (Oct 2017 - Aug 2018) Jacksonville In this position, I was responsible for assisting with the completion of periodic verifications of a client’s capacity to claim compliance with the Global Investment Performance Standards (GIPS®), in addition to performing services related to ACA's bevy of investment performance related services. \- Assisted in conducting periodic verifications to ensure client compliance with the Global Investment Performance Standards (GIPS®). \- Collaborated with team members to deliver a comprehensive range of investment performance related services. \- Analyzed client data and generated reports to support compliance verification processes. \- Communicated effectively with clients to gather necessary information and provide updates on project progress. Demonstrated strong attention to detail and problem-solving skills while working on complex performance analysis tasks - **Editor In Chief at Reading University Investment Society** (Feb 2017 - Sep 2017) Reading, Berkshire, GB I wrote for and edit a monthly financial newspaper which explores the financial markets. - **Student Fee Committee Vice Chair at Southern Oregon University** (Nov 2015 - Jun 2016) Ashland I served as vice chair on a committee that was responsible for the collection and budgeting of $4.6 million in student fees. - **Inter Club Council Allocations Committee Chair at Southern Oregon University** (Oct 2014 - Jun 2015) Ashland I was responsible for running weekly meetings of a committee that allocated approximately $100,000 to various clubs at the university. Meeting content included from hearing funding requests and changing bylaws. Additionally, I presented to the club representative to ensure that funding requests were accurate, timely, and helpful. - **Intern at Sustainable Valley Technology Group** (Sep 2014 - Jan 2015) I worked with seed-stage companies to develop pitches to investors, consulted with clients about accounting systems, and assisted with foundation events. - **Electrics Intern at Cirque du Soleil** (Apr 2014 - Jun 2014) At Mystere, I completed a three month intensive internship in the Lighting department. Specifically, I ran spotlights for two shows a night, five days a week in the latter half of the day, while in the earlier half of the day I accomplished maintenance tasks. This included checking all fixtures to ensure they were working, fixing the ones that weren't, organizing fixture inventory, cleaning the inventory, and repairing aging equipment. ## Skills ### Technical - Architecture - C# - Data Analysis - Data Management - Data Science - Distributed Systems - Flutter - Julia - Large Language Models (LLM) - Linux - Machine Learning - Matlab - Microsoft Office - PostgreSQL - Programming - Python - R - React.js - Software Development ### Business - Analytics - Consulting - Project Management - Writing ### Interpersonal - Research - Team Leadership - Teamwork ### Other - Accounting - Asset Pricing - Bayesian inference - Bayesian methods - Bayesian statistics - Bloomberg Terminal - Burger eating - Corporate Finance - Economics - Editing - Engineering - Equity Derivatives - EViews - Finance - Financial Markets - Google BigQuery - Industrial Organization - Information Retrieval - Investments - Market Microstructure - Microstructure - PowerPoint - Probabilistic Models - Project Implementation - Quantitative Analytics - Recommender Systems - Statistical Computing - Statistics - Thomson Reuters Eikon - Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) ## Projects - **AdvancedMH** An collection of performant Metropolis-Hastings inference algorithms for probabilistic models. Developed with many other contributors, please see the GitHub for a list of collaborators. ## Publications - August 23, 2026 — cameron.stream (Aug 2026) https://cameron.stream/knowledge/daily-2026-08-23 - August 22, 2026 — cameron.stream (Aug 2026) https://cameron.stream/knowledge/daily-2026-08-22 - August 21, 2026 — cameron.stream (Aug 2026) https://cameron.stream/knowledge/daily-2026-08-21 - August 19, 2026 — cameron.stream (Aug 2026) https://cameron.stream/knowledge/daily-2026-08-19 - Letta Office Hours: Cloud Agents in Slack, Computer Use, GLM 5.3, and Custom Clients — cameron.stream (Aug 2026) https://cameron.stream/knowledge/letta-office-hours-2026-08-20 - Why Stripe Is Acquiring OpenRouter — cameron.stream (Aug 2026) https://cameron.stream/knowledge/why-stripe-is-acquiring-openrouter - August 18, 2026 — cameron.stream (Aug 2026) https://cameron.stream/knowledge/daily-2026-08-18 - tangled-letta — cameron.stream (Aug 2026) https://cameron.stream/knowledge/tangled-letta - August 16, 2026 — cameron.stream (Aug 2026) https://cameron.stream/knowledge/daily-2026-08-16 - August 15, 2026 — cameron.stream (Aug 2026) https://cameron.stream/knowledge/daily-2026-08-15 - August 14, 2026 — cameron.stream (Aug 2026) https://cameron.stream/knowledge/daily-2026-08-14 - Letta Office Hours: Dynamic Workflows, Cloud Agents, Grok 4.6, and Personalized Software — cameron.stream (Aug 2026) https://cameron.stream/knowledge/letta-office-hours-2026-08-13 - August 13, 2026 — cameron.stream (Aug 2026) https://cameron.stream/knowledge/daily-2026-08-13 - August 12, 2026 — cameron.stream (Aug 2026) https://cameron.stream/knowledge/daily-2026-08-12 - Your First Persistent Agent — cameron.stream (Aug 2026) https://cameron.stream/knowledge/first-persistent-agent - August 11, 2026 — cameron.stream (Aug 2026) https://cameron.stream/knowledge/daily-2026-08-11 - Why Letta? — cameron.stream (Aug 2026) https://cameron.stream/knowledge/why-letta - Learning from Documentation with the Letta Agent SDK — cameron.stream (Aug 2026) https://cameron.stream/knowledge/learning-from-documentation-with-letta-agent-sdk - August 6, 2026 — cameron.stream (Aug 2026) https://cameron.stream/knowledge/daily-2026-08-06 - Letta Office Hours: Free Dreaming, ACP, MCP, and Trajectory — cameron.stream (Aug 2026) https://cameron.stream/knowledge/letta-office-hours-2026-07-30 - Letta Office Hours: Agent SDK, Shared Memory, and Spec-Driven Development — cameron.stream (Aug 2026) https://cameron.stream/knowledge/letta-office-hours-2026-07-23 - Letta Office Hours: Cloud Sandboxes, GitHub Integration, GPT-5.6, and Agent Sharing — cameron.stream (Aug 2026) https://cameron.stream/knowledge/letta-office-hours-2026-07-16 - Letta Office Hours: GPT-5.6, Grok 4.5, Letta App Server, and Spec-Driven Agents — cameron.stream (Aug 2026) https://cameron.stream/knowledge/letta-office-hours-2026-07-09 - Letta Office Hours: Letta Agent, Mod Challenge Demos, Slack Agents, and GLM-5.2 — cameron.stream (Aug 2026) https://cameron.stream/knowledge/letta-office-hours-2026-07-02 - Letta Office Hours: Mods, Signal Support, GLM-5.2, and Slack Agents — cameron.stream (Aug 2026) https://cameron.stream/knowledge/letta-office-hours-2026-06-29 - Letta Office Hours: Mods, MemFS, and Teaching Agents New Tricks — cameron.stream (Aug 2026) https://cameron.stream/knowledge/letta-office-hours-2026-06-19 - Letta Office Hours: New Desktop UI, Local Mode, Agent Services, and Skills vs MCP — cameron.stream (Aug 2026) https://cameron.stream/knowledge/letta-office-hours-2026-05-21 - Letta Office Hours: Local Mode and the New Pro Plan — cameron.stream (Aug 2026) https://cameron.stream/knowledge/letta-office-hours-2026-05-14 - Letta Office Hours: Sandboxes for Letta Chat, Sensemaker, and an agent that plays Pokemon — cameron.stream (Aug 2026) https://cameron.stream/knowledge/letta-office-hours-2026-05-08 - Letta Office Hours: Discord Channel, Custom Plugins, Letta City Sim, and a Special Guest — cameron.stream (Aug 2026) https://cameron.stream/knowledge/letta-office-hours-2026-05-01 - Letta Office Hours: Digital Coworkers with Slack — cameron.stream (Aug 2026) https://cameron.stream/knowledge/letta-office-hours-2026-04-23 - Letta Office Hours: Channels, Cron, and Opus 4.7 — cameron.stream (Aug 2026) https://cameron.stream/knowledge/letta-office-hours-2026-04-16 - Letta Office Hours: April 9th, 2026 — cameron.stream (Aug 2026) https://cameron.stream/knowledge/letta-office-hours-2026-04-09 - Letta Office Hours: April 2nd, 2026 — cameron.stream (Aug 2026) https://cameron.stream/knowledge/letta-office-hours-2026-04-02 - Letta Office Hours: Desktop Early Access, Forking, Secrets, Memory Doctor — cameron.stream (Aug 2026) https://cameron.stream/knowledge/letta-office-hours-2026-03-26 - Letta Office Hours: March 19th, 2026 — cameron.stream (Aug 2026) https://cameron.stream/knowledge/letta-office-hours-2026-03-19 - Letta Office Hours: March 12, 2026 — cameron.stream (Aug 2026) https://cameron.stream/knowledge/letta-office-hours-2026-03-12 - Letta Office Hours: Letta Remote, Claude Subconscious Demo, and Lettabot — cameron.stream (Aug 2026) https://cameron.stream/knowledge/letta-office-hours-2026-03-05 - Letta Office Hours: MemFS, Letta Chat, and the future of AI agent memory — cameron.stream (Aug 2026) https://cameron.stream/knowledge/letta-office-hours-2026-02-26 - Letta Office Hours: Opus 4.6, Lettabot Updates, Agent File Directory, and More — cameron.stream (Aug 2026) https://cameron.stream/knowledge/letta-office-hours-2026-02-05 - Letta Office Hours: Introducing LettaBot +Claude Subconscious Demo — cameron.stream (Aug 2026) https://cameron.stream/knowledge/letta-office-hours-2026-01-29 - Letta Office Hours: Letta Chat, GitHub Action, Letta Code, and more! — cameron.stream (Aug 2026) https://cameron.stream/knowledge/letta-office-hours-2026-01-26 - Letta Office Hours: Message Scheduling, GitHub Actions, Ralph Mode, and the Note Tool — cameron.stream (Aug 2026) https://cameron.stream/knowledge/letta-office-hours-2026-01-09 - Letta Office Hours: Letta Code Demo, Agent Skills, Claude Code Proxy & More — cameron.stream (Aug 2026) https://cameron.stream/knowledge/letta-office-hours-2025-12-18 - Letta Office Hours: December 4th, 2025 — cameron.stream (Aug 2026) https://cameron.stream/knowledge/letta-office-hours-2025-12-04 - Letta Office Hours: November 6th, 2025 — cameron.stream (Aug 2026) https://cameron.stream/knowledge/letta-office-hours-2025-11-06 - Letta Office Hours: October 30th, 2025 — cameron.stream (Aug 2026) https://cameron.stream/knowledge/letta-office-hours-2025-10-30 - Letta Discord Office Hours: October 16th, 2025 — cameron.stream (Aug 2026) https://cameron.stream/knowledge/letta-office-hours-2025-10-16 - Letta Discord Office Hours: October 2nd, 2025 — cameron.stream (Aug 2026) https://cameron.stream/knowledge/letta-office-hours-2025-10-02 - Letta Discord Office Hours: September 25th, 2025 — cameron.stream (Aug 2026) https://cameron.stream/knowledge/letta-office-hours-2025-09-25 - Letta Office Hours — cameron.stream (Aug 2026) https://cameron.stream/knowledge/letta-office-hours - Letta Office Hours: Shared Memory, Hypervigilant, Schedules, and the Agent SDK — cameron.stream (Aug 2026) https://cameron.stream/knowledge/letta-office-hours-2026-08-06 - August 5, 2026 — cameron.stream (Aug 2026) https://cameron.stream/knowledge/daily-2026-08-05 - August 4, 2026 — cameron.stream (Aug 2026) https://cameron.stream/knowledge/daily-2026-08-04 - August 3, 2026 — cameron.stream (Aug 2026) https://cameron.stream/knowledge/daily-2026-08-03 - August 2, 2026 — cameron.stream (Aug 2026) https://cameron.stream/knowledge/daily-2026-08-02 - August 1, 2026 — cameron.stream (Aug 2026) https://cameron.stream/knowledge/daily-2026-08-01 - July 31, 2026 — cameron.stream (Aug 2026) https://cameron.stream/knowledge/daily-2026-07-31 - Metis: Native Memory Inside a Foundation Model — cameron.stream (Jul 2026) https://cameron.stream/knowledge/metis-memory-foundation-model - July 30, 2026 — cameron.stream (Jul 2026) https://cameron.stream/knowledge/daily-2026-07-30 - The Most Sloppy — cameron.stream (Jul 2026) https://cameron.stream/knowledge/the-most-sloppy - July 29, 2026 — cameron.stream (Jul 2026) https://cameron.stream/knowledge/daily-2026-07-29 - July 28, 2026 — cameron.stream (Jul 2026) https://cameron.stream/knowledge/daily-2026-07-28 - July 25, 2026 — cameron.stream (Jul 2026) https://cameron.stream/knowledge/daily-2026-07-25 - Liturgical Systems Brutalism — cameron.stream (Jul 2026) https://cameron.stream/knowledge/liturgical-systems-brutalism - Flat JSON transformation (Tinker curriculum task set 1) — cameron.stream (Jul 2026) https://cameron.stream/knowledge/tinker-curriculum/task-set-01 - Tinker curriculum — cameron.stream (Jul 2026) https://cameron.stream/knowledge/tinker-curriculum - July 23, 2026 — cameron.stream (Jul 2026) https://cameron.stream/knowledge/daily-2026-07-23 - Cosmic Liturgical Brutalism — cameron.stream (Jul 2026) https://cameron.stream/knowledge/cosmic-liturgical-brutalism - July 22, 2026 — cameron.stream (Jul 2026) https://cameron.stream/knowledge/daily-2026-07-22 - July 21, 2026 — cameron.stream (Jul 2026) https://cameron.stream/knowledge/daily-2026-07-21 - Gemini model series — cameron.stream (Jul 2026) https://cameron.stream/knowledge/language-models/gemini - July 20, 2026 — cameron.stream (Jul 2026) https://cameron.stream/knowledge/daily-2026-07-20 - Linguistic Calibration and Probabilistic Inference — cameron.stream (Jul 2026) https://cameron.stream/knowledge/linguistic-calibration-and-probabilistic-inference - Public and Private Knowledge — cameron.stream (Jul 2026) https://cameron.stream/knowledge/public-and-private-knowledge - Probabilistic Programming — cameron.stream (Jul 2026) https://cameron.stream/knowledge/probabilistic-programming - Persistent Agent Memory — cameron.stream (Jul 2026) https://cameron.stream/knowledge/persistent-agent-memory - Knowledge — cameron.stream (Jul 2026) https://cameron.stream/knowledge/overview - NOW — cameron.stream (Jul 2026) https://cameron.stream/knowledge/now - Market Microstructure — cameron.stream (Jul 2026) https://cameron.stream/knowledge/market-microstructure - Letta — cameron.stream (Jul 2026) https://cameron.stream/knowledge/letta - July 19, 2026 — cameron.stream (Jul 2026) https://cameron.stream/knowledge/daily-2026-07-19 - Context Repositories — cameron.stream (Jul 2026) https://cameron.stream/knowledge/context-repositories - Strong Context References — cameron.stream (Jul 2026) https://cameron.stream/knowledge/strong-context-references - Routing-Based Agent Memory — cameron.stream (Jul 2026) https://cameron.stream/knowledge/routing-based-agent-memory - Context Compaction — cameron.stream (Jul 2026) https://cameron.stream/knowledge/context-compaction - Structured Outputs — cameron.stream (Jul 2026) https://cameron.stream/knowledge/structured-outputs - Spec-Driven Development for AI Coding Agents — cameron.stream (Jul 2026) https://cameron.stream/knowledge/spec-driven-development-for-ai-coding-agents - MemGPT — cameron.stream (Jul 2026) https://cameron.stream/knowledge/memgpt - Letta Code — cameron.stream (Jul 2026) https://cameron.stream/knowledge/letta-code - Letta Agent — cameron.stream (Jul 2026) https://cameron.stream/knowledge/letta-agent - Recoverable Agent Execution — cameron.stream (Jul 2026) https://cameron.stream/knowledge/recoverable-agent-execution - The Mint Condition Is Here: Big Stack, Fresh Finish — cameron.leaflet.pub (Mar 2026) https://cameron.leaflet.pub/mint-condition - A guide to getting started with Letta Code — cameron.leaflet.pub (Jan 2026) https://cameron.leaflet.pub/letta-code-guide - ATProtocol is good infrastructure for AI collective intelligence — cameron.leaflet.pub (Jan 2026) https://cameron.leaflet.pub/social-ai - Void, the Bluesky bot that remembers everyone — cameron.leaflet.pub (Jul 2025) https://cameron.leaflet.pub/void - Structured LLM output from ATProto Lexicons — cameron.leaflet.pub (Mar 2025) https://cameron.leaflet.pub/lexicons-and-ai - New site using Franklin.jl — cameron.leaflet.pub (Mar 2024) https://cameron.leaflet.pub/new-site-franklin - Getting the Pile — cameron.leaflet.pub (Jun 2023) https://cameron.leaflet.pub/the-pile - Rust & More — cameron.leaflet.pub (Jun 2018) https://cameron.leaflet.pub/rust-and-stuff ## Credentials - Passed CFA Level 1 — CFA Institute (Jan 2018) http://basno.com/bua76j0c - Machine Learning — Coursera (Apr 2017) https://www.coursera.org/account/accomplishments/certificate/XR63Q4DQTBEU - Bloomberg Market Concepts — Bloomberg LP http://about.bloomberginstitute.com/students/bloomberg-market-concepts/ ## Education - **University of Oregon - Charles H. Lundquist College of Business** — Doctor of Philosophy - PhD (2022) \- My research focused on asset pricing, market microstructure, algorithmic trading, and models of information flows. \- Developed a Bayesian model to evaluate the role of fundamental firm performance in understanding the macroeconomy, utilizing high-performance computing tools in cluster computing environments. \- Designed and implemented a data pipeline for cleaning and performing distributed inference on terabytes of supermarket point-of-sale data. - **Henley Business School** — Master of Science (MSc) (2016 - 2017) \- Utilized programming languages such as R, Python, Octave, and Matlab to process and analyze large amounts of financial data for research and personal projects \- Studied algorithmic trading and market making models, demonstrating an interest in applying quantitative methods to financial problems \- Collaborated with top executives at a major international bank in London on a research project, showcasing the ability to work on complex, real-world problems in a professional setting Activities & Societies: Chief Editor, Reading University Investment Society - **Southern Oregon University** — Bachelor of Science (B.S.) (2013 - 2016) \- Studied diverse disciplines including technical theater, accounting, finance, and computer science \- Gained expertise in implementing and troubleshooting large-scale entertainment rigs, involving engineering, project management, and creative skills \- Developed proficiency in accounting principles (GAAP, IFRS), financial analysis, and computer science topics such as networking, programming, and machine learning Activities & Societies: USITT Club, Inter Club Council ## Courses - Applied Statistics - Financial Management - Intermediate Accounting - Securities, Futures, and Options - Financial Markets - Advanced Financial Analysis - Fixed Income & Equity Investments - Liquidity Risk & Algorithmic Trading - Corporate Finance - Quantitative Methods in Finance - Mergers & Acquisitions - Energy Finance - Corporate Governance and Accountability - Programming for Finance - International Financial Management - Principles of Finance ## Involvement ### Volunteering - Sustainable Valley Technology Group (Oct 2015 - Dec 2015) Intern I did grant research, created estimates on volunteer hours, tabled at events, and reached out to community members to request assistance. I also worked in a supportive capacity for general events. ## Languages - English (native)