AlekTurkmen
Silk is a fully autonomous, full stack AI hedge fund that utilizes large language models to orchestrate the complete spectrum of hedge fund operations. We are building a system for truly autonomous wealth generation that replaces traditional investment workflows with infrastructure that enable LLMs not just to interface with financial markets, but to compete with and outperform human investors. Looking to bring on founding members who have technical backgrounds in quantitative finance, ML/AI, and risk management.
Hi, I'm Alek Turkmen, solo founder working on Silk full time now for the past 3 months. Please reach out if interested. Also looking for advisors / mentors with finance background.
Email -> alek [at] silk [dot] fund | https://www.linkedin.com/in/alekturkmen/ | https://alekturk.men
Silk is a fully autonomous, full stack AI hedge fund that utilizes large language models to orchestrate the complete spectrum of hedge fund operations—from quantitative research and technical analysis to trade execution, position management, and portfolio oversight. Silk is being designed to support several hundred autarkic cloud-based LLM instances that can each perform their own real time market analysis and trade stocks on a custom recurrence schedule, with custom MCP tools and infrastructure, using initial conditions (configurable strategies) set by humans. The end state for Silk is a multi-prop hedge fund that invests in financial markets with zero humans in the loop.
I'm currently a solo founder working on this full time (2 months). Please reach out if interested. Also looking for advisors / mentors.
Alek Turkmen | [email protected] | https://www.linkedin.com/in/alekturkmen/ | https://alekturk.men
Location: NYC
Remote: No
Willing to relocate: Yes (SF)
Technologies: React, TS/JS, SQL, GCP, Supabase, Python, AI/LLM integration or development
Résumé/CV: https://alekturk.men
Email: [email protected]
Remote: Yes (prefer in-person)
Willing to relocate: US Only
Technologies: Python, Swift, HTML/Java/CSS, Autodesk, SOLIDWORKS, NX/Siemens, Linux, Adobe, MATLAB
Résumé/CV: contact for details
Website: www.alekturkmen.com
Email: [email protected]
Looking for: Summer Internship (anytime May - August)
I am a third year college student with a mechanical engineering background. I am highly interest in tech startups, particularly in Computer Vision, Machine Learning, AR, AI, Biometrics. But am completely open to any work.
My side projects can be found on my website, and in my free time I've been working solo on my own startup concepts.