Achal Premi

VP of Engineering

Coulsdon, England, United Kingdom13 yrs 7 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expertise in Equities Prime Financing and Delta derivatives.
  • 5 years of experience in Quantitative Development.
  • Proficient in Python and C++ for trading systems.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech professional specializing in quantitative trading and derivatives pricing.

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Skills

Core Skills

Equity SwapsQuantitative FinanceDerivativesStatistical ArbitrageLow Latency Trading

Other Skills

AXEDelta OneDerivatives PricingElectronic Trading SystemsEquitiesFinancial EngineeringInterpersonal SkillsLow Latency Trading SystemsMarket Making strategiesMathematicsNumPyProgrammingPythonPython (Programming Language)Quantitative Analytics

About

Expertise in Equities Prime Financing, one Delta derivatives, Equity Swaps. Statistical Arbitrage (Market Making strategies in Index Futures and Options), Low Latency Trading Systems. Stochastic Calculus and Derivatives Pricing (Vanilla and Structured Products). 5 years of experience in Quantitative Development in Python and C++. Pursued Financial Engineering from Tepper Business School, Carnegie Mellon University and Nanyang Business School. Maths and Computing Graduate from IIT Delhi. Technical Skills : Stochastic of Finance, Quantitative Trading Strategies, Portfolio Management, Statistical Modeling, Financial Time Series Analysis, Derivative Pricing Programming Languages - Python and C++

Experience

Deutsche bank

Vice President, Franchise Pricing Strat

Aug 2023Present · 2 yrs 7 mos · London, England, United Kingdom · On-site

Goldman sachs

2 roles

Vice President

Promoted

Oct 2018Apr 2023 · 4 yrs 6 mos

  • Push the firm’s Equities Axe List Offering to Systematic and Quant clients across Developed & Emerging Markets
  • Major responsibilities include pricing analytics and developing an internal model for Cusip level funding cost and liquidity cost to selectively offer tighter axed pricing
  • Led an initiative to systematically generate funding cost based axed pricing proposals for multiple clients & markets
  • Track Pricing Stability, Client Hit Rate and use the feedback loop to improve pricing model, Client experience, Balances and Pnl Growth
Equity SwapsSQLDelta OneQuantitative AnalyticsAXEQuantitative Finance

Associate

Oct 2018Jan 2021 · 2 yrs 3 mos

Equity SwapsDerivativesDelta OneEquitiesValuation

Actant

Quantitative Developer

Aug 2017Oct 2018 · 1 yr 2 mos · London, United Kingdom

Interpersonal SkillsProgramming

East india commodities

High Frequency Trader

Mar 2015Feb 2017 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • o Devised and deployed a cross-exchange, multi-leg, statistical arbitrage strategy from scratch
  • o Identified areas of improvements for increased market participation ( 4 %). Strategy has been running since Aug’ 2015
  • o In-depth trade analytics (through Python) for classifying and reducing slippages and latency (across all components of a multi-server trading system and market data system)
  • o Working knowledge of the ITCH, OUCH and FIX protocols to build a Multi Threaded Order Management System and Market Data Handler in Linux environment.
  • o Proficient in developing production ready low latency strategies in C++ on the FlexTrade platform in Linux Environemnt
Interpersonal SkillsResearchNumPyProgrammingPython (Programming Language)Statistical Arbitrage+1

Numerix

Implementation Specialist

Feb 2014Dec 2014 · 10 mos · Singapore

  • oLead and liaise on templates creation for pricing and risk analytics of vanilla and structured derivatives across Equity, FX and Interest Rate Asset Classes
  • oIn-depth knowledge of pricing derivative products (Vanilla Option, Barrier Option, Accumulators, Equity Linked Note, Swap, Swaption, CapFloor and Range Accrual) by using standard Market Models (Black, Hull & White, Local Volatility and Stochastic Volatility)
  • oUse pricing templates to develop custom implementations of Cross Asset Server, a derivative pricing and risk calculation server) to run end of the day mark-to-market valuations of a bank’s entire portfolio
  • oAssist Quantitative Support team on client queries related to Price and Greeks behavior w.r.t models and numerical methods usage
  • oManage client and vendor during project execution and provide onsite client support
  • oAssist in preparing pre sales demo for potential clients; test new products in pipeline
Interpersonal SkillsProgramming

Hedgespa pte ltd

Quantitative Developer (Intern)

Oct 2012Apr 2013 · 6 mos · Singapore

  • oImplemented Reverse Scenario Analysis, on the basis of variation explained by Principal Components
  • oStrengthened the Quantitative Modeling efforts for Soft Commodities and Base Metals
  • oProgrammed a multi-threaded back-end system (of an investment Analytics Platform) having large memory footprint and in-memory computations, including end-to-end bug fixing.
Interpersonal SkillsProgramming

Dimts ltd

Assistant Manager - Analytics

Dec 2011Jul 2012 · 7 mos · New Delhi Area, India

  • oBuilt a constrained linear optimization algorithm to estimate time of arrival of next bus (in real time)
  • oCoded the backend system for the same in C++, which is currently being used to display time of arrival of next bus, on the Public Information System
  • oModeled real time traffic condition and created a prototype of heat-map, by analyzing GPS data from the public transit buses in Delhi as probes.
Interpersonal SkillsResearchProgramming

Oracle

Software Engineer

Jul 2010Dec 2011 · 1 yr 5 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

  • oConceptualized & developed a diagnostics framework for the software product, SOA Gateway
  • oImplemented new functionalities, migrated old functionalities and assisted testing team for release
Interpersonal SkillsResearchProgramming

Ibm research

Summer Intern

May 2009Jul 2009 · 2 mos

  • Developed a compression algorithm for directed graphs based on existing scheme for undirected graphs. It Compresses the brain graph model up to 60% whereas comparable random graphs are only 25% compressed. Thus it established the existence of a pattern of connectivity in brain as opposed to being a random graph.
Interpersonal SkillsProgramming

Education

Carnegie Mellon University - Tepper School of Business

Computational Finance

Jan 2013Jan 2013

Nanyang Technological University Singapore

Master of Science (MSc) — Financial Engineering

Jan 2012Jan 2013

Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

Integrated Masters of Technology — Mathematics and Computing

Jan 2005Jan 2010

CFA Institute, USA

CFA level 1 — Chartered Financial Analyst

Jan 2012Jan 2012

Global Association of Risk Professionals

FRM level 1 — Financial Risk Management

Jan 2012Jan 2012

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