Nils Valseth Selte

Software is eating the world - Marc Andreessen

Industrial Economics & Technology Management student (NTNU '27) specializing in Artificial Intelligence and Finance, currently on exchange at UC Berkeley.

I like building things people find value in, talking to people about how software can help them, and working with highly ambitious and motivated teams.

Project
Launching my personal website

Built this website as a blog, inspired by Physical Intelligence's website.

Stealth Project
Cortex AI

Something very cool and useful is coming 🤫.

Project
Building a market making bot from scratch

Full stack trading bot that streams order book data, simulates the book, quotes with a fixed spread strategy, and records trades in SQLite with a small REST and SSE API on top.

Experience
Joining Zerolytics as a modeling intern

Working on climate adjusted valuation models, turning a manual analyst workflow into a Python based pipeline that scaled to hundreds of companies.

Education
Spending a year at UC Berkeley

Exchange year focused on Deep Neural Networks and Optimization, plus a course project on in context learning and how transformer models pick up new tasks from examples.

Experience
Helping build Tendro in its early days

Blending product and engineering: analytics for usage and KPIs, competitor and pricing work used in fundraising, and pieces of the production codebase for our first enterprise customers.

Project
Doggo: My first full stack application in Next.js

Built a small website that shows pictures of cute dogs

Education
Starting the MSc at NTNU

Industrial Economics & Technology Management with an AI and Finance track.

Personal
Crossing the Atlantic on a 33 ft sailing boat

Six months living on a 1982 sailboat with a friend, sailing from the Caribbean to Florida and back across the Atlantic to Europe. A good test of risk, planning, and not losing your mind at sea.

If you want to chat about AI, finance, sailing or building things, please get in touch.

Expanded skillset:

Comfortable with linear algebra, probability, optimization, financial modeling, and modern software tooling in Python, PyTorch, pandas, FastAPI, Next.js, SQL, Docker, Linux, Git, and Zsh, plus a mix of student roles and case competitions including work in the Abakus Academic Committee, a START NTNU case win, and side projects ranging from a small apparel venture in high school to the Atlantic crossing.