About Eclipse Financial Advisors
I learned to think like an engineer before I ever built a financial plan.
Eclipse exists for software engineers whose financial lives have grown as complex as the systems they build. We bring precision, structure, and a long view to the part of a tech career that generic advice consistently gets wrong.
Our Name, Our Purpose
Some lessons come from textbooks. Mine came from a telescope.
Eclipse draws its name from nights spent stargazing with my father under clear mountain skies. Engineering is his lifelong passion, and the way he saw the world stayed with me: precise, patient, always working out what comes next.
He also taught me to trust experts, a lesson that shaped my personal, financial, and professional life, and eventually led me to finance.
Predictable Patterns
The most predictable event in nature.
An eclipse follows a fixed cycle. Astronomers calculate them centuries in advance, down to the minute, because the pattern never changes.
Markets are cyclical too. Expansions, corrections, and recoveries are not anomalies. They are the pattern. Neither an eclipse nor a market cycle can be stopped, but both can be anticipated, and a plan built around the pattern is what turns an event that catches people off guard into one you already accounted for.
Why Engineers
The same rigor you bring to your work, brought to your money.
Engineers think in systems, tradeoffs, and second-order effects. So do the best financial decisions. Equity compensation, taxes, concentration risk, and long-term investing are not separate problems to solve one at a time. They are one connected system, and a change in any one of them moves the others.
Most advice treats them as a checklist. Eclipse treats them as a system, because that is how they actually behave, and because that is the only way to make decisions you will still be glad you made ten years from now.