Paul Kwon is Head of Platform Engineering at Nuveen Brooklyn, where he owns the platform behind the firm’s systematic investment operations — the optimization, rebalancing, and tax-transition engines that run its separately managed accounts. He was Head of Algorithmic Systems at Brooklyn Investment Group through Nuveen’s 2025 acquisition, and joined through the firm’s pivot from Skopos Labs, where he built NLP systems for policy-outcome prediction. more ↓

Writing

• The half-life of alpha (draft)Jul 19, 2026
  Signals are depreciating assets; rebalance cadence, capacity, and honesty about your own market impact all follow from one number.
  finance · ml

Selected work

• Portfolio rebalancing engine2024–
  Tax-aware optimization across the firm’s separately managed accounts; constraint system, transition logic, and the reconciliation loop that keeps it honest.
• Trading infrastructure, v12021–23
  Order lifecycle, allocation, and custodian integration for the firm’s launch.
• Policy-outcome NLP models2019–21
  Legislative-outcome prediction systems at Skopos Labs.

Background