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Animesh Kumar

Quantitative Analytics/Development
Gurugram,Haryana

Summary

I am a Quant with more than 11 years of experience in the field of Quantitative Analytics and development, working with different financial institutions. I have a history of developing, testing and implementing profitable predictive trading models, time-series based data analytics along with contributing towards Quantitative research infrastructure, coordinating with different teams for making trading and other processes more efficient and cost-effective. I have a software background in education which enables me to quickly learn and use new technologies and tools for much better and updated research. I am looking forward to work in an analytics-based position where I can very well contribute through my current skillset and keep on updating the same.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Pricing Quant Developer

ION Trading Pvt Ltd
Gurgram, Haryana
06.2021 - Current

1) Working in the Fixed Income product Analytics.

2) Providing pricing and analytics support to Global Banks and Financial institutions.

3) Timely maintenance and updating of Fixed income Analytics library.

4) Static data analytics related to Fixed income products.

5) Actively liaison with Bloomberg support for Analysis of various fixed income products.

6) Have worked on simple to complex Fixed income analytics products like Danish Mortgage bonds, Inflation-linked bonds, Sinkbale bonds, etc.

7) Development of pricing models and analysis in Java-based platform.

Manager - Index and Quants

Evalueserve Pvt Ltd
Gurugram, Haryana
06.2020 - 06.2021

1) Worked for one of the global investment bank providing support to the global quantitative investment desk.

2) Developed and backtested simple to complex quantitative trading strategies for the global commodities desk.

3) Planned and executed the development of a generic backtesting platform.

4) Played a key role in the automation of the production process through python and schedulers.

5) Leading Client calls and presentations.

6) Managed a team of 3 Senior business analysts.

Senior Quantitative Analyst

Acceletrade Technologies Pvt Ltd
Gurugram, Haryana
10.2016 - 05.2019

1) Worked for India's top High-frequency trading firm, in their research team as a senior quantitative analyst.

2) Worked closely with the team of quantitative researchers for time-series historical data, Data analytics, backtesting and stress testing of trading models.

3) Worked on predictive trading models for continuous improvement and using data science and machine learning techniques to make them dynamic in nature (GLMs,(linear, logistic), Decision trees, Reinforcement learning).

4) Analyzing historical market data for deriving and back testing patterns.

5) Worked on the regression model for trading Indian stocks and futures.

6) Designed and implemented the whole flow for data generation and storage to be consumed for Quantitative research.

7) Designing of pipelines for the generation of historical data by sampling tick by tick data into per minute time-series data on AWS cloud.

8) Time-series data sanity checks.

9) End-user testing for the trading platform developed for quantitative research, looking for bugs and implementing solutions to rectify them.

10) Code optimization using standard template library in C++ for improving the run time of the application with optimum memory utilization.

Research Analyst

Marketopper Securities Pvt Ltd
Gurugram, Haryana
09.2010 - 09.2016

1) Worked as Research Analyst within the research team of Marketopper Securities, one of the pioneers of algorithmic trading in India.

2) Worked closely with research, trading and operations team for implementing new trading models, trading cost optimisation, improvement of existing research infrastructure and testing of applications.

3) Researching huge time series data sets in python and backtesting models based on pattern matching, correlation analysis, data mining, time series analysis, and hypothesis testing.

4) Regular checks on the performance of trading algorithms to ensure profitability and high Sharpe. 3) Analysing post-trade data to ensure trading costs are optimized.

5) Design and development of trading algorithms to automate the process of systematic trading over Indian stock markets( Financial instruments ranging from Equities, Derivatives, Indices, Commodities and forex).

6) Analysis and backtesting of the performance of the trading algorithms by running historical simulations over several years of stock market data in SQL.

7) Designing, development, and maintenance of more than 600 technical trading indicators libraries and their timely update.

8) Requirement gathering from the manager related to new trading algorithms required to optimize the trading performance of the company's fund. Designing and implementing those solutions as algorithms and testing for any bug related to the software.

9) Maintaining the documentation of all the additions to the technical indicator library and the trading algorithms developed and their performance reporting to the manager.

10) Successfully implemented and executed portfolio asset allocation along with risk minimization using monte Carlo simulations. 10) Collaborated with professors from prestigious institutions, implementing new ideas and research.

Quant Programmer Analyst

Prophecies Technologies Pvt Ltd
Gurugram, Haryana
06.2009 - 08.2010

1) Worked as Quant programmer analyst with Prophecies technologies, a subsidiary of SGFC Geneva fund.

2) To assist researchers in coding and testing trading strategies and models, improving them and playing an active role in building the team's infrastructure.

3) Coding and back-testing the trading literature, improving the models based on own research and observations.

4) Implemented Portfolio optimization using a basket of trading strategies in excel with crystal ball oracle plug-in. 3) Developed and tested trading models using pattern matching and market direction.

5) Worked on walk forward optimization of the portfolio in Excel.

Education

Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science And Engineering

Government Engineering College, Bathinda, Punjab
India
08.2005 - 05.2009

Skills

Python

C

Java

MariaDB

Bloomberg

AWS EC2 S3

MS Excel

Quantitive Analytics

Data Science

Timeline

Pricing Quant Developer

ION Trading Pvt Ltd
06.2021 - Current

Manager - Index and Quants

Evalueserve Pvt Ltd
06.2020 - 06.2021

Senior Quantitative Analyst

Acceletrade Technologies Pvt Ltd
10.2016 - 05.2019

Research Analyst

Marketopper Securities Pvt Ltd
09.2010 - 09.2016

Quant Programmer Analyst

Prophecies Technologies Pvt Ltd
06.2009 - 08.2010

Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science And Engineering

Government Engineering College, Bathinda, Punjab
08.2005 - 05.2009
Animesh KumarQuantitative Analytics/Development