Palak Somani

Co-Founder

Singapore, Singapore4 yrs experience

Key Highlights

Gold medalist from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Developed high-impact trading strategies delivering superior risk-adjusted returns.
First place winner of VISA 2020 global Intern Hackathon.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech professional with strong quantitative and algorithmic trading expertise.

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AccountingAgile Project ManagementBack-End Web DevelopmentC (Programming Language)Front-end DevelopmentLeadershipManagementMarketingMatlabMicrosoft ExcelMicrosoft OfficeMicrosoft WordOperations ManagementPandas (Software)PowerPoint

About

Highly accomplished and results-oriented financial markets professional with a unique blend of computer science expertise and business acumen. A gold medalist and university topper from the prestigious Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, I bring strong analytical rigor and a consistent record of driving profitability in dynamic financial environments. My career spans leading global institutions—Quadeye,Goldman Sachs, VISA, Shopee, Singtel, SAP, and KPMG—where I’ve developed cross-functional expertise across investment strategy, fintech, and market analytics. These roles have sharpened my command of quantitative techniques and deepened my understanding of global market dynamics. By leveraging advanced technologies, I’ve created and implemented high-impact trading and investment strategies that deliver superior risk-adjusted returns. I was also offered admission to IIM Ahmedabad and IIM Bangalore—India’s most prestigious and globally ranked business schools—but chose to pursue high-impact industry roles, demonstrating clarity of purpose and leadership maturity.

Experience

Quadeye

Quantitative Trader

Feb 2025 – Present · 1 yr 1 mo · Singapore · On-site

Systematic volatility trading – APAC

Balancepro

Co-Founder - Options Trader

Oct 2024 – Feb 2025 · 4 mos · Hong Kong SAR · On-site

Developed algorithmic trading strategies for options for Indian financial markets, leveraging extensive experience and insights gained from global financial markets
Analyzed market microstructure, volatility patterns, and regulatory dynamics to create adaptive and scalable trading algos

Goldman sachs

2 roles

Global Markets - Analyst

Mar 2022 – Oct 2024 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Hong Kong SAR

Worked in the Quant Vol Trading Team focused on Indian Options Market Making and alpha research
Developed the "Marquee Structured Products" platform for the APAC region, with a focus on product innovation and pricing of derivative payoffs
Optimized calculation time of different structured products payoff
Received return offers from multiple teams – Joined Equites Derivatives Team

Global Markets - Summer Analyst

Jun 2021 – Aug 2021 · 2 mos · Hong Kong SAR

Synthetic Products Team: Identified best strategy to capture an index arbitrage spread between SGX-Nifty and Local IN Nifty to maximize PnL through rigorous back-testing
Equities Securitized Derivatives Team: Studied PnL impact & deployed a NN model to better approximate exotic derivative pricing & optimized calculation time
Equities Prime Services Team: Developed a LSTM network model to systematically predict securities that might heat up / cool down in the next few weeks using several supply-demand indicators

Shopee

Intern

Jul 2020 – Jan 2021 · 6 mos · Singapore

Shopee (Owned by Sea Group) is a leading online shopping platform in SEA.
Worked with Spark and Spring framework to provide big data solutions to accelerate growth.
Worked with WebSockets to add a real time user-collaboration feature within existing applications.
Created Python and Bash scripts to automate tasks.

Visa

Intern

May 2020 – Jul 2020 · 2 mos · Singapore

VISA is a global payments technology company. It is listed on NYSE with a market capitalization of US$ 500 bn.
1st place winner of the VISA 2020 global Intern Hackathon - Payments in the Pandemic.
Collaborated & created a universal in-chat peer to peer (P2P) payment solution to help users cope with the disruptions caused by Covid-19 pandemic.
Participated in global intern case challenge to prepare a whitepaper for a solution to displace cash from the economy with digital money.

Kpmg

Intern

Nov 2019 – Jan 2020 · 2 mos · Mumbai Area, India

KPMG is a global professional service organization with network in 147 countries and over 220,000.
Provided data analytical and visualization services to a banking client.
Led a project to help in prediction of defaults using deep neural networks. Improved the accuracy of the model by 7.9% as compared to the previous model being used.