Who Is Jacob Geiger?
Hi, I’m Jake Geiger - Data Scientist and Author of the award-winning blog The Geiger Gazette, or… will be when it wins awards.
Born in raised in Columbus, Ohio, Jacob Geiger attended the Ohio State University, where he received his Bachelor’s in Business Administration, specializing in finance. Following Jacob’s graduation in the spring of 2024, he began his job search in the financial industry. With the job market seemingly in shambles, the only companies that would bite were offering either sales positions or included selling insurance. After receiving an offer from Skylight Financial Group for a Financial Advisor, he began completing the required licenses and exams under the company’s sponsorship. He studied and passed the Ohio Life and Health Insurance exam within 5 days, and the FINRA SIE exam in 6. Upon joining the firm, Jacob quickly realized the company didn’t provide an accurate description of their practices and pay structure, so he started searching for alternatives. He concluded that, as a financial advisor, you’re better off starting your own company from scratch instead of only making 20% commissions on insurance premiums that you sell. Willing to assume the risk, that’s exactly what he did.
Starting the new year in 2025, Jacob dedicated all of his time and energy to learning new skills, specifically in the realm of computer science. In January of 2025, Jacob Geiger and his brother, Zach Geiger, founded GxG Medtech, where Jacob agreed to do all of the technical work and Zach agreed to provide capital and oversee marketing strategies. They decided to utilize AI to create an AI-driven journaling app, Wisp, which grew to 3,000 users in 3 months. This project planted a seed of infatuation for software engineering and data science within Jacob’s brain, and at that moment knew he wanted to do this for the rest of his life. Knowing he was at a disadvantage due to not having a computer science degree, he scoured the internet for the best sources to learn from. He took MIT’s 6.0001 “Introduction to Computer Science and Programming in Python”, 6.0002 “Introduction to Computational Thinking and Data Science“, and further self-taught Python, Pandas, and NumPy, amongst many other Python libraries, over the course of 4 months. In July of 2025, Jacob Geiger studied and passed the CompTIA Data+ exam in 3 days. Following this accomplishment, and feeling comfortable with data analysis, he began to dive deeper, practicing LeetCode to learn DSA, competing in Kaggle competitions to gain fundamentals of PyTorch, SKLearn, and machine learning. This would mark the start of a new era.
After following Andrej Karpathy’s video series on building LLMs from scratch, utilizing Python and NumPy, all the way to using PyTorch’s API, Jacob Geiger gained a true sense of scale and depth of possibilities this technology possesses. Following his insatiable desire to learn more, Jacob dove into making his own deep learning models from scratch, reading all of the notable technical research papers that built the foundation of deep learning, and trying to decipher and make sense of the underlying complex mathematics. In his most recent work, Jacob Geiger is focusing his gaze on the bleeding edge of research in quantitative finance, marrying his passions for computer science and finance.
Why The Geiger Gazette?
I started this blog as my passion project, more or less to test the content creation skills that I have developed throughout my life, but also to talk about valuable information that may seem obvious but is rarely talked about. Here, I will write my ideas, tips on life, and several other topics that provoke critical thinking and provide utility to your everyday life!
Eventually, I would like to grow my knowledge on topics of self-improvement to give informed speeches and Ted Talks that will truly change the world’s productivity as we know it. I’m a firm believer that there are winners and losers in this world - which you are not assigned at birth. What determines your success relative to others is not your aspirations, but the steps you take to achieve them.
I hope that everyone at the end of the day is successful by their definitions. However, you will find my content will mostly be geared towards my particularly challenging aspirations. In turn, my content will be most helpful to those with big and challenging life-long goals.