Thomas Pratt / software engineer
2layers is the boundary between a person and a system. I work across quantitative tools, research infrastructure, and independent software to make that boundary useful.
The live field is unavailable. The portfolio remains fully navigable.
Work / professional + independent
The model matters. So do the data, workflow, interface, and person expected to act on it.
At Crossmark Global Investments, my work has grown from quantitative models and reporting into the infrastructure people use around them: research data, explainable screening, investment workflows, internal web applications, monitoring, and small tools that remove repetitive work.
Public code / selected threads
The repository archive includes finished tools, working research, and useful dead ends. These four threads connect most directly to the work above.
Texas Hold’em abstractions and counterfactual-regret minimization in Cython.
↗PDF text, embeddings, and document relationships expressed as a graph.
↗Embedding-driven web research paired with retrieval and language models.
↗An early experiment in making images with adversarial autoencoders.
↗About / Thomas Pratt
I am a software engineer in Houston. I started in quantitative development and now build across investments, research, operations, infrastructure, and the interfaces connecting them.
The name 2layers is literal: computation on one side, a person on the other. I care about the translation between them—whether a system is understandable, dependable, and worth using.
Software that turns complex processes into something a person can inspect and act on.
Nature, long exposures, color, people, and self-portraits: a second practice built around looking closely.
Computational studies / 04
The interactive studies remain part of the practice, but not its center: they are a place to test how mathematical systems communicate.
Open the studies