Experience
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Senior Data Scientist, Team Lead, at Gauntlet Network
July 2019 – November 2022
- Early and formative employee of a unicorn startup, valued at $1B as of January 2022 funding round
- Developed agent-based economic simulations to assess risks in Decentralized Finance (DeFi) lending protocols
- Implemented advanced risk management techniques, significantly reducing risks of insolvent debt for DeFi lending protocols
- Acquired and applied expertise in decentralized finance and smart contracts, resulting in a young startup finding product-market fit and securing $23.8M in Series B funding at a $1B post money valuation
- Managed and streamlined new client integrations and mentored junior data scientists on a fast-growing team
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Senior Product Manager, New Product Development, at Jibe, Inc.
New York, NY | January 2018 – July 2019
- Led design, development, and maintenance of products across a Recruiting SaaS suite
- Collaborated with Talent Acquisition teams at Fortune 100 firms throughout product lifecycles
- Optimized development throughput while working closely with software engineers across the full stack
- Spearheaded the firm's 2018 GDPR Readiness Initiative across the suite of enterprise SaaS products, ensuring full compliance ahead of deadline
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Algorithmic Options Trader, at Spot Trading, LLC
Chicago, IL | July 2011 – November 2017
- Managed quantitative volatility arbitrage strategies in a low-latency algorithmic market-making operation
- Conducted regression and cluster analyses on algorithmic fill, market prints, and other data
- Collaborated with trading algorithm developers and designers of risk management views, using Agile software development methodologies
- Served as the primary liaison between Volatility Trading and Algorithmic Execution teams, in a hybrid (i.e. graybox) proprietary trading strategy
Education
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A.B. in Economics at Princeton University
Princeton, NJ | May 2011
- Thesis: Anticipation and Reaction: Gauging the Sector-Specific Anticipation of and Reaction to Economic Reports in the Options Markets
- Coursework included: Algorithms and Data Structures, Systems Programming in C, Active and Passive Investment Management (graduate-level), Options, Futures, and Derivatives Pricing (graduate-level)
- Varsity Member of the Track and Field and Cross Country Teams (1500m best, 3:51:27)
- Co-Manager, Princeton Laundry Student Agency
- Passed CFA Level One
Technical Skills
- Programming Languages
- Python
- JavaScript
- R
- C++
- SQL
- Solidity
- APIs and Protocols
- REST
- web3
- protobufs
- Reactive Python (rxpy)
- Software and Tools
- Excel
- KubeFlow
- Version Control
- Git
- Github
- Cloud Technologies
- AWS (Amazon Web Services)
- Google Cloud Platform
- Machine Learning Libraries
- TensorFlow
- PyTorch
- scikit-learn
- Data Visualization
- Matplotlib
- Plotly
- Seaborn
- D3.js
- Data Processing
- Pandas
- NumPy
- Web Development Frameworks
- Flask
- Django
- Containerization
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- CI/CD
- Jenkins
- Github Actions
- Project Management Methodologies
- Agile
- Scrum
- Kanban
- Data Storage
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
- Google BigQuery
- MongoDB
- Data Science Tools
- Jupyter Notebook
- RStudio
- Anaconda
- Blockchain Technologies
- Bitcoin
- Ethereum
- Geth
- web3py
- OpenZeppelin
- Truffle Suite
- API Design and Development
- GraphQL
- Swagger
- Postman
- Testing
- Unit testing
- Integration testing
- TDD (Test-Driven Development)