Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Accomplishments
Personal Info
Additional Projects, Courses
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Divakaran K

Quant Developer
Chennai

Summary

I'm a Quant Developer focused on building robust, production-ready systems for trading and portfolio management. I specialize in automating strategies, integrating broker APIs, and turning ideas into code fast using AI tools. I thrive in development-driven roles—whether it’s leading projects, managing strategies, or building core infrastructure.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Quant Developer

Acsys Investments Pvt LTD
01.2022 - Current
  • Developed a 24x7 fully automated trading system for stocks and futures using Interactive Brokers API.
  • Implemented optimization algorithms (Genetic Algorithm, MCMC) to tune strategy parameters.
  • Built a feature-generation pipeline with configurable normalization, lagging, and transformation—designed for easy ML model integration.
  • Created a "phantom broker" architecture allowing multiple strategies to operate simultaneously on the same asset.
  • Researched, backtested and monitored live strategies, performed portfolio optimization of strategies and risk analysis of running strategies.

Software Dev Engineer

Sonicwall Pvt LTD
04.2019 - Current

Worked on diverse projects involving Python for Backend development

  • Involved in developing APIs for integration of Sonicwall UTM devices to NSM, a cloud management portal for sonicwall products
  • Involved in developing BE for TSR, a tool used by support staff to
    handle customer queries based on Firewall logs
  • Involved in writing scripts for automatic deployment of Sonicwall
    products on Linux servers using Ansible

Cease Engineer

Tata Communications Pvt LTD
08.2016 - 03.2019
  • Worked in Cease department, responding to client's disconnection
    requests. Data handling and working with large client reports.

Education

Master of Science - Financial Engineering

WorldQuant University
08.2019 - 07.2021

B.Tech - Electronics And Communications Engineering

Shiv Nadar University
08.2012 - 03.2016

Skills

  • Language and tools: Python (Numpy, Pandas, Numba, CUDA, miultiprocessing, threading, Flask), Linux, Ansible, Git
  • Finance/Trading: Algorithmic Trading, Backtesting, Portfolio Optimization

  • Time Series Analysis: Statistical modeling, Feature engineering
  • Data Processing: Large-scale data handling, Real-time streaming

Accomplishments

Exhibited photographs

- in "Focus Bangalore"'s photo exhibition at Bangalore

Won

- Club level tournaments in Tennis

Head of Club

- 'Science of Cinema' in college

Vice-president

- of Photography club "VisuallySNU" in college

Personal Info

Date of Birth : 23-11-1994

Languages : English, Tamil, Hindi

Additional Projects, Courses

  • Built backtesting systems with Python for Options Trading - Developed 4 backtesting strategies using daily minute-by-minute Intra day data of Option contracts
  • Automated Report generation of ‘Bleed-offset’ volatility prices for Index Options at end of each trading day
  • Machine Learning by Stanford University ( Coursera.org )
  • Data science with Python – Career track ( DataCamp.com )

Timeline

Quant Developer

Acsys Investments Pvt LTD
01.2022 - Current

Master of Science - Financial Engineering

WorldQuant University
08.2019 - 07.2021

Software Dev Engineer

Sonicwall Pvt LTD
04.2019 - Current

Cease Engineer

Tata Communications Pvt LTD
08.2016 - 03.2019

B.Tech - Electronics And Communications Engineering

Shiv Nadar University
08.2012 - 03.2016
Divakaran KQuant Developer