Technical Skills & Expertise
A comprehensive overview of my technical capabilities spanning quantitative modeling, machine learning research, and production engineering.
Quantitative & Machine Learning
Bridging classic quant approaches with modern machine learning
- Quantitative modeling for financial applications
- Volatility surface modeling for Deep Hedging
- Reinforcement Learning & Optimal Control
- Gaussian Processes & probabilistic modeling
- Bayesian Deep Learning & Variational Inference
- Model-based Reinforcement Learning
- Risk management and pricing workflows
Production & Engineering
Building resilient ML systems at scale
- End-to-end production ML pipelines
- Model training & deployment at scale
- CI/CD for machine learning
- Docker containerization
- AWS cloud infrastructure
- Unit & integration testing
- MLOps best practices
- Privacy-preserving ML implementation
Tech Stack
Languages, frameworks, and tools
- Python (primary)
- TensorFlow & PyTorch
- NumPy, SciPy, Pandas
- scikit-learn, GPflow
- C/C++ (past work)
- Verilog/VHDL (hardware background)
- Git version control
- Linux/Unix environments
Research & Academic
Core research competencies
- Experimental design & execution
- Statistical analysis & hypothesis testing
- Technical writing & publication
- Peer review process
- Conference presentations
- Research collaboration
- Mentoring junior researchers
Domain Expertise
Application areas and industry knowledge
- Equity derivatives & Deep Hedging
- Energy markets & commodity trading
- Natural gas & LNG structured assets
- Financial risk management
- Synthetic data generation
- Privacy-preserving ML
- Signal processing & tracking (past)
Soft Skills
Leadership and collaboration
- Technical leadership & team management
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Stakeholder communication
- Mentoring & knowledge transfer
- Project planning & execution
- Research to production transition
- Problem decomposition & solution design
Key Achievements
Performance Optimization
Delivered over 2x training performance improvement for Deep Hedging models at J.P. Morgan
Production Systems
Built end-to-end production flows for model training and pricing with live deployment
Patents & Innovation
J.P. Morgan Chase Prolific Inventor with 5+ patents filed in 2023
Research Impact
Published at top ML conferences (AISTATS, TMLR) with focus on data-efficient RL
Academic Background
My technical foundation is built on rigorous academic training:
- PhD in Computer Science — Imperial College London (2016-2020)
- MRes in Advanced Computing — Imperial College London (2015-2016)
- MSc in Information & Communication Engineering — TU Darmstadt (2011-2013)
- BEng in Electronics & Telecommunications — University of Pune (2004-2008)