Personal Interests
- Music — Piano & Viola
- Languages — Spanish (Native), English (C1), Portuguese (B2), French (B1), Mandarin Chinese (HSK3)
- Scuba Diver
Strongest Skill
Turning quantitative ideas into reality.
Quant Finance Certifications
- C++ for Financial Engineering — QuantNet (Modern C++ practices for quant finance)
- Advanced Calculus for Finance — Baruch College European Options, Arbitrage-Free Pricing & Arbitrage, Delta/Gamma Hedging, Implied Volatility, Bond Math, Portfolio Optimization
- Numerical Linear Algebra for Financial Engineering — Baruch College Arrow-Debreu Model. Risk-neutral pricing,Complete and incomplete markets - binomial and trinomial trees,Covariance and correlation matrices from time series data,Portfolio optimization theory. Efficient frontier and tangency portfolio,Value-at-Risk (VaR). Portfolios with multivariate normal asset returns. Portfolio VaR.
- Probability Theory for Financial Applications — Baruch College Binomial asset pricing model, Risk and expected return of a portfolio, Black-Scholes model, Risk-neutral probabilities, Options pricing, Monter-Carlo simulation
- Partial and Ordinary Differential Equations with Applications to Financial Engineering — Baruch College Differential equations and the term structure of interest rates, Bond default probability model, Perpetual American options solution, The derivation of the Black-Scholes PDE, Boundary conditions, Financial interpretations, The solution to the Black-Scholes PDE and the derivation of the Black-Scholes formulas, Extensions of the Black-Scholes PDE
- P Exam (Probability) — Society of Actuaries Discrete distributions, Continuous distributions, Computation of expectations, variances and generating functions, joint distributions, conditional distributions and conditional expectations, Law of large numbers, Central limit theorem
Tech Certifications
Hard Skills
- Machine Learning Engineering (6+ years with data products)
- Data Engineering (6+ years with data products)
- Cloud Computing
- Futures Trading (4 years hands on experience)
- Options Trading (1.5 year hands on experience)
- Python (10/10), SQL (10/10), Data Visualization (10/10), C++ (8/10), Java (7/10), Go (7/10), C# (5/10)
- Stochastic Calculus, Option Pricing, Monte Carlo, PDEs & Finite Differences
- Statistical Inference, Hypothesis Testing, Linear Regression
Live Projects
Bitcoin Options Live Snapshot Volatility Surface
Capture a live snapshot of Bitcoin options, build intuition from the Black–Scholes baseline, then fit the smile using the Stochastic Volatility Inspired (SVI) framework.