BurryAI
AI-powered personal finance platform for students
Overview & Problem
BurryAI is a personal financial platform designed specifically for students. It automates expense tracking, optimizes recurring spending habits, and surfaces curated financial opportunities like scholarships, research grants, internships, and freelance gigs.
The Engineering Problem
Mainstream personal finance applications are built for salaried corporate professionals with predictable incomes. They do not account for irregular student cash flow or help users find actionable sources of educational income.
What I Built
- ■Built expense tracking and budgeting algorithms capable of monitoring variable student income, recurring subscriptions, and savings targets.
- ■Implemented personalized AI recommendations analyzing historical spending patterns to suggest actionable budget optimizations.
- ■Developed an automated opportunity discovery system surfacing scholarships, grants, and internships.
- ■Engineered low-latency serverless microservices deployed across Cloudflare Workers global edge locations.
- ■Designed interactive visual analytics dashboards to monitor spending trends and projected runway over time.
Engineering & Architecture
Edge-First Low-Latency API Services
Deployed all financial calculations and data access layers on Cloudflare Workers, achieving sub-50ms response times globally without traditional regional server latency.
Safe Financial Advisory Synthesis
Structured prompt pipelines and deterministic data checks to ensure AI financial recommendations remained mathematically consistent with account balances.
Technology Stack
Results & Status
Production-deployed serverless system supporting student budgeting and opportunity exploration.