Upendra Katara

AI Researcher

Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India2 yrs 2 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Over 4 years of experience in trading and mentoring.
Developed and deployed 20+ Web3 protocols.
Mentored 400+ students in derivatives trading.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech professional with expertise in trading and blockchain development.

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Skills

Core Skills

Blockchain DevelopmentWeb3Trading EducationDerivatives TradingQuantitative TradingAlgorithmic Trading

Other Skills

DesignEthereumFinanceGo (Programming Language)JavaScriptProgram TradingPublic SpeakingPython (Programming Language)SQLSolidityTrading SoftwareWriting

About

Hey there! I'm Upendra, a Math & CS graduate from IIT Goa. With over 4 years of experience in day trading equities and derivatives, I'm committed towards understanding and developing models in the capital markets. I have previously worked as a derivatives trader and mentor for two private companies, teaching 400+ students while consistently being profitable over three quarters. Being a blockchain developer at Cognam technologies, I have enhanced about 20 Web3 protocols. I'm also committed towards making this world easy for small retail investors. Feel free to reach out to chat about startups, trading, asset management, cats or food :)

Experience

Trexquant investment lp

Global Alpha Researcher

Oct 2024 – Present · 1 yr 5 mos · Remote

Working on creating alphas using machine learning.

Cognam technologies pvt. ltd.

AI/ML Engineer

Jun 2024 – Present · 1 yr 9 mos · Remote

Working with SML to leverage documents to create AI Agents capable to solve customer queries with minimal latency.
Connected altogether via RAG like systems such as LangGraph to reduce hallucinations and improve generation quality.

Georgia institute of technology

Research Assistant

May 2024 – Sep 2024 · 4 mos · Remote

Developing scalable Economic Entity Recognition systems leveraging cutting edge GenAI models like Llama-3 and GPT-4 and domain specific adaptations at the Financial Services Innovation Lab.
Enhancing information retrieval and decision making by improving entity extraction.

University of tartu

NLP Research Intern

Apr 2024 – Sep 2024 · 5 mos · Remote

• Innovating in debiasing word embeddings, such as GloVe and gn-GloVe, to represent gender neutral semantic information.

Cognam technologies pvt. ltd.

Blockchain Developer

Jun 2023 – Dec 2023 · 6 mos

Developed vast range of protocols, fulfilling tasks such as swapping, lending, staking, yielding.
Deployed all the protocols on-chain.
Worked with chainlink to get off-chain data to on-chain followed by a vote based system for the inclusion of data.

SolidityGo (Programming Language)JavaScriptWeb3FinanceEthereum+1

Tagmango

Software Developer

May 2023 – Jun 2023 · 1 mo · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · Remote

Hopped on client calls to understand business requirements to develop the solutions.
Communicated and developed need based solutions with the team end to end.
Used MERN stack to solve requirements.

Havenspire pvt limited

Derivatives Trader and Mentor

Aug 2022 – Jan 2023 · 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

Taught and developed content on derivates trading, including option buying and cryptocurrency trading.
Mentored more than 300-400 people in the tenure.

Algorithmic TradingDerivatives TradingPublic SpeakingTrading Education

Optionables fintech llp

Quantitative Trader

Apr 2022 – May 2022 · 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

Developed trading strategies on option selling using greeks.
Created and deployed a delta neutral trading strategy integrating both buy and sell sides on a capital of 5 Lakhs.

Trading SoftwarePython (Programming Language)SQLAlgorithmic TradingProgram TradingQuantitative Trading