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Gautam Kishore

@gautamkishore

Senior Data Scientist at RoundSqr

Hyderabad

Franklin Templeton InvestmentsUniversity Of Hyderabad

Gautam Kishore is a seasoned data scientist and quant researcher with expertise in Python, R, and the Microsoft Azure ecosystem. His experience includes leading initiatives in hedge fund data obfuscation and developing robo-advisory frameworks for major financial institutions. He has a strong background in quantitative modeling, including developing tactical hedging strategies and intraday trading models using reinforcement learning.

Experience

Quant Researcher – STS

Franklin Templeton Investments

Feb 2018 - Oct 2021Hyderabad

Developed tactical hedging model for MXASJ universe, outperforming index by 28%. Developed intraday trading strategy based on Reinforcement learning, improving desk profits by 8.7%. Managed $10 Million weekly rebalanced Macro Quantamental portfolio (Sharpe 2.47). Led development of a reusable Factor ML library (scikit-quant) and codebase overhaul to Python.

Senior Data Scientist

RoundSqr

Dec 2021 - Sep 2021Hyderabad

Led “Crowd sourced Hedge fund” initiative. Developed custom data obfuscation model to securely distribute proprietary hedge fund data. Developed custom ensemble package for financial time series modelling. Client work included leading “Spare Change Micro-Investing” initiative for J P Morgan Chase and developing a Robo-Advisory framework for different bank verticals.

Founder

IntelloCapital

Apr 2017 - Dec 2017Gurgaon

Developed framework for improving hit ratio of any trading strategy using time series classification. Researched and developed time series (TS) to image encoding techniques for Financial TS-classification.

Analyst-Fixed Income Market

Futures First

Jul 2014 - Apr 2017Gurgaon

Traded fixed income markets of Canada and US. Developed pricing models for short term interest market of Canada using OIS curve. Developed model for finding correct Eurodollar strategy prices using order book exploitation.

Intern-Data Analyst

Proof of Performance analytics

May 2013 - Jul 2013Noida

Developed an NLP model to augment user ratings with keywords/tags extracted from reviews.

Education

University Of Hyderabad

PhD

Computer Science

Apr 2020 - Jun 2024

IIT Roorkee

B. Tech

Electrical Engineering

Jul 2010 - May 2014

Licenses & Certifications

FRM

Issued: May 2019• No expiration

CFA Level 1

Issued: Jun 2019• No expiration

Skills

Python
R
Java
C++
Microsoft Azure
Git
Docker
Linux
Tensorflow
Scikit-Learn
Pyro
MLflow
Sacred
SQL
kdb+
MongoDB