Gautam Kishore
@gautamkishore
Senior Data Scientist at RoundSqr
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
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
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
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
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
Developed an NLP model to augment user ratings with keywords/tags extracted from reviews.
Education
University Of Hyderabad
PhD
Computer Science
IIT Roorkee
B. Tech
Electrical Engineering
Licenses & Certifications
FRM
CFA Level 1