Resume

Education

  1. Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh

    August, 2022 - December, 2023

    Master of Science in Computational Finance

    - Awarded Academic Excellence in Mathematics Award
    - Teaching Assistant: Data Analytics in Finance, Financial Computing, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning 1, MSCF Investments

  2. Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

    July, 2016 - July, 2020

    Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering, Minor Area in Economics

    - Secured all India rank of 97 in JEE Advanced, 2016
    - Awarded Semester Merit scholarship twice
    - Leadership: Spearheaded team of 18 to manage and publicize quiz club activities; conducted inter and intra-college quizzes
    - Teaching Assistant: Instructed tutorials for 400 students in the Linear Algebra and Differential Equations course

Experience

  1. Chicago Trading Company, Chicago

    June, 2023 - August, 2023

    Quantitative Trading Analyst, Global Risk Management

    - Finite Difference Pricer: Researched and implemented alternating direction explicit method to price options and compared results with other methods like Crank-Nicholson, implicit and Black-Scholes; presented results to the head of quant modeling
    - Quantitative Min-Vol Setting: Researched vol regimes for all the portfolios traded by the firm and developed an automated system to detect a low vol regime; drove the model into production to apply appropriate limits on trading options on these

  2. Quadeye Securities LLP, Gurugram

    July, 2020 - May, 2022

    Quantitative Strategist, High Frequency Options

    - Trading Alpha Research: Researched price difference between future and synthetic of stocks on NSE and generated new alpha to increase PnL of strategy by 15% at same sharpe; increased scale by 1.5x to capture market based on alpha
    - High Frequnce Trading Strategy: Conceived and drove production of intraday synthetic futures trading strategy
    - System Latency: Implemented FPGA strategy to reduce system and order latency by 60% by simulating possible events
    - Post-Trade Analysis: Streamlined automated systems to generate daily insights on fill volume and ratio of trading strategies

  3. Deutsche Bank AG, Singapore

    May, 2019 - July, 2019

    Summer Analyst, FX Options Team and Credit Solutions Team

    - Monte Carlo Simulation: Revamped pricing model for Vanilla VKO for G10 currency pairs using Monte Carlo simulations employed globally, and improved performance by 10 times against previous model by leveraging parallel computing
    - Credit Analysis: Reviewed automobile securitization in India to prepare investor pitch for products with different risks

  4. Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore

    May, 2018 - June, 2018

    Visiting Student Assistant, Professor Costas Courcoubetis

    - Algorithm Design: Formulated heuristic version of Sweep Algorithm to find solution for electric truck routing problem
    - Data Visualization: Designed code in p5 Processing to visualise route taken by each electric truck in optimized solution
    - Sensitivity Analysis: Conducted simulation of model under vital constraints like battery charge, truck capacity and working hours to derive that density of charging stations should at least be 10% of density of customers for smooth functioning

Coursework

  1. - Mathematics: Stochastic Calculus, Risk Management, Option Pricing, Numerical Methods, Optimization, Linear Algebra, Differential Equations
    - Computing: Data Structures, Design of Algorithms, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Parallel Computing
    - Finance: Fixed Income, Asset Management, Market Microstructure, Options, Investments
    - Statistics: Econometrics, Game Theory, Time Series Analysis and Forecasting, Stochastic Processes, Simulations
    - Economics: Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, International Economics, Mechanism Design and Auctions
    - Programming: C++, Python, R, Java, UNIX, C, Q, HTML

Additional Information

  1. - Interests: Quizzing - Winner of National CBSE Heritage India Quiz, Trivia, Backpacking, Cricket, Reading
    - Languagess: Englist, Hindi, Spanish (Learning)
    - Scholarships: NTSE - National Talemt Search Examination, KVPY - Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana, SIA - Singapore Airlines