Kanwal Prakash Singh ~

CEO

Gurugram, Haryana, India11 yrs 10 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • Expert in quantitative finance and algorithmic trading.
  • Led development of high-performance trading strategies.
  • Pioneered OTC trading operations in cryptocurrency.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech expert specializing in quantitative trading and algorithmic strategies.

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Skills

Core Skills

Quantitative ResearchAlgorithmic TradingData ScienceInformation RetrievalStatistical Analysis

Other Skills

Algorithm DesignAlpha GenerationAndroid DevelopmentArtificial IntelligenceBusiness DevelopmentCC++CommunicationComputer MusicComputer ScienceCryptoData MiningData StructuresDatabasesDeep Learning

About

Kanwal Prakash Singh is the Head of Quantitative Research at O’Neil Capital Management India, an asset management firm. Under his leadership, the firm has developed high-performance systematic trading/investment strategies that leverage cutting-edge machine learning, statistical modeling, and optimization techniques to generate alpha and enhance risk-adjusted returns. Kanwal is committed to continuously advancing the firm’s capabilities in quantitative asset management and data-driven investment strategies, positioning O’Neil Capital Management as a pioneer in the industry. With over 8 years of experience in quantitative finance, Kanwal is a recognized expert in data-driven alpha generation and market microstructure. He has an extensive track record of developing proprietary trading strategies that deliver consistent returns through sophisticated statistical methods and machine learning models. As a former High-Frequency Trader, he played a key role in developing low-latency, high-performance trading systems that consistently outperformed market benchmarks. Kanwal also served as a Founding Quant Member at 5 Swans, a proprietary trading firm founded by HFT veterans, where he significantly contributed to strategy development and market insights. Kanwal's expertise extends beyond traditional equity markets. In the fast-evolving cryptocurrency space, he was instrumental in establishing OTC trading operations for HNIs and institutional clients. He also played a critical role in building the liquidity infrastructure for CoinDCX, one of India’s leading cryptocurrency exchanges. His work on developing automated risk models ensured robust compliance with regulatory frameworks such as FEMA, FCRA, and PMLA, allowing the exchange to scale while safeguarding against market and regulatory risks. Before transitioning into quantitative finance, Kanwal led the Data Science division at Housing.com, where he spearheaded the development of innovative algorithmic solutions to optimize operational workflows. His work on routing algorithms and predictive analytics resulted in substantial cost savings and significant improvements in operational efficiency, contributing directly to the company's competitive edge and market growth. Kanwal graduated with honors in Computer Science from IIT Bombay, one of India’s premier institutions. Outside of his professional work, Kanwal is an avid composer, blending his analytical mindset with creativity. He is also passionate about geopolitical strategy and government policy, constantly researching global macroeconomic trends.

Experience

11 yrs 10 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 8 mos
Average Tenure
2 yrs 9 mos
Current Experience

William o'neil india

Head - Quantitative Trading | Key Investment Team Member - O'Neil India Quant Fund

Aug 2023Present · 2 yrs 9 mos

  • Key Investment Team Member, O'Neil India Quant Fund [AIF-3]
  • Leading a team of quant researchers in developing cutting-edge algorithmic trading/ investment strategies, leveraging advanced machine learning, statistical modeling.
  • Running multifactor intraday trading strategies in US markets
Mathematical ModelingRisk ManagementNSEQuantitative ResearchQuantitative AnalyticsQualitative & Quantitative Research Methodologies+9

5 swans

Quant Trader [Founding Quant Member]

Aug 2022Aug 2023 · 1 yr · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

  • My role majorly focuses on building Systematic Quant Trading Strategies using statistical methods with Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Models on top of market microstructures, applying them for
  • Execution Algorithms and Trading Strategies
  • Includes Paternity Sabbatical Starting May 1, 2023
NSETrading StrategiesAlgorithmic TradingTradingQuantitative ResearchMathematics+9

Coindcx

2 roles

Head of Quant

Promoted

Mar 2021Feb 2022 · 11 mos

  • OTC, INR Markets
  • Liquidity Engine for INR markets, setup and ran a profitable OTC Desk
  • Responsible for order flows of entire CoinDCX (Prev : Go App)
  • Fraud Analysis (ex - Trading Patterns , FEMA violations)
  • Investment Indices
  • Price level and Value checks for the INR pairs
  • Margin Rates, Leverage, Liquidity
  • Given the unprofessional conduct in industry, lack of effective strategy, regularity nightmares and excessive politics over responsibilities, decided to move on
Trading StrategiesAlgorithmic TradingTradingQuantitative ResearchMathematicsQuantitative Analytics+10

Strategy Consultant

May 2020Feb 2021 · 9 mos

  • Boosting INR markets liquidity
  • Set up and scaled OTC desk from scratch
  • Improving trading products
Trading StrategiesAlgorithmic TradingTradingQuantitative ResearchMathematicsQuantitative Analytics+9

Theremin ai

Quant Researcher/Trader

Nov 2018May 2020 · 1 yr 6 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

  • Applying AI in Trading / Investment
NSETrading StrategiesAlgorithmic TradingTradingQuantitative ResearchMathematics+10

Quantai capital

Quant Trader, HFT

Sep 2017Aug 2018 · 11 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

NSETrading StrategiesAlgorithmic TradingTradingQuantitative ResearchMathematics+8

Edelweiss financial services

Quant Trader, HFT

Aug 2016Sep 2017 · 1 yr 1 mo · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

  • Leveraging data science in the field of high frequency trading
NSETrading StrategiesAlgorithmic TradingTradingQuantitative ResearchMathematics+8

Housing.com

3 roles

AVP, Engineering

Jun 2015Jul 2016 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • My work involved setting up the development and shipment pipeline of Data Science and Technology teams. Key achievements are
  • 1. Streamlined the Development Pipeline into agile mode of development.
  • 2. Nourishing the team into a full stack development profile - Data Scientist would host machine Learning Artificial Intelligence and NLP related product APIs , Technology Team would nurture the infrastructure and product
  • 3. Setup the analytics and Data Warehousing pipeline to track user behaviour in real time.
  • 4. Worked closely with Growth team to increase the registrations by 400%.
  • 5. SEO fixes to improve the products rank in search engine results.
TradingMathematicsQuantitative AnalyticsStatisticsCommunicationData Science+1

Head, Data Sciences

Promoted

Dec 2014Jun 2015 · 6 mos

  • Information Extraction / Information Retrieval
  • Extracting Information and structuring it from a large user generated discussion dataset using Natural Language Processing, Artificial Intelligence, machine learning Algorithms and improving the model performance using feature engineering and ensembling
  • Dev Ops
  • Scaling the php-apache-mysql architecture by using load balancer (nginx) and attaching multiple apache instances with it with a master-slave database architecture
MathematicsQuantitative AnalyticsStatisticsCommunicationData ScienceInformation Retrieval

Data Scientist

Aug 2013Dec 2014 · 1 yr 4 mos

  • Tackling business problems by coming up with mathematical/statistical solutions to optimize the costs and achieve higher efficiency. The major projects are summarized below
  • Optimal Data Collection Scheduling
  • Designed an algorithm for optimal scheduling by reducing it to min cost max matching determination of a bipartite graph and used Hungarian Algorithm for solving. Link to the algorithm - https://housing.com/blog/2014/10/13/kps-algorithm-for-data-collector-route-optimization/
  • Data Collection Offices Identification
  • Formulated the cost function and optimized it using machine learning techniques to generate the possible sets of positions on the map for the new data collection offices required in order to cover the listing requests on the site within a time constrained, these new offices were supposed to act like hubs for the company's Hub n Spoke Model.
  • Supply Forecasting for predicting and planning for the upcoming flats using neural networks
  • Customer Behavior Analysis
  • Using the customer's interaction and behavior data captured by trackers, trained a clustered supervised support vector machine model to predict whether a customer would lead to conversion with an accuracy of 78 %.
  • Tracking List View
  • Developed an Infrastructure to track the Real Time Impressions of objects (flats) in list view and maintain their values in an in memory key-value pair
MathematicsQuantitative AnalyticsStatisticsCommunicationData ScienceStatistical Analysis

Intuit

Software Engineer Intern

May 2012Jul 2012 · 2 mos · Bangalore

  • Performed a thorough background check to diagnose pain points in the current Bill Payment System in India
  • Developed an advanced online bill payments system to rectify the same
  • Performed extraction of details from bill (PDF) using text extraction techniques
  • Implemented Voice, Email and text Reminder services, functionality to check the bill status through text messages along with smart analytical report of user's past expenditure
  • Programmed in Spring 3.0 with Spring Security Java Framework; gained insight about Java Beans & loose coupling
  • Used Hibernate ORM to interact with the relational Mysql database using HQL in an object oriented fashion; made the application database agnostic
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Education

Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

Btech — Computer Science

Jan 2009Jan 2013

Sir Padampat Singhania

Jan 1997Jan 2009

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