Hardik Parikh

CEO

United States8 yrs 11 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Expert in quantitative analysis across finance and data science.
Proven track record in portfolio management and market analysis.
Skilled in developing tools for financial data analysis.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Finance and Data Science expert with strong analytical and quantitative skills.

Contact

parikhhardik@hotmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Other Skills

Analytical SkillsArtificial IntelligenceCommodity MarketsComputational FinanceFinanceFinancial AnalysisFixed incomeMachine LearningMicrosoft ExcelNatural Language ProcessingPublic SpeakingPythonQuantitative FinanceQuantitative ResearchResearch

About

With a background at the intersection of Finance, Physics, Data Science, and Economics, I offer fundamental as well as quantitative analysis of tough-to-crack, abstruse market environments. My unique cross-sectional skillset helps me figure out patterns in noises and discern rumours from the news.

Experience

Pimco

3 roles

Vice President, Portfolio Manager

Promoted

Dec 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 3 mos · New York City Metropolitan Area

Portfolio Manager

Sep 2022 – Dec 2023 · 1 yr 3 mos · New York City Metropolitan Area

Portfolio Manager - Commodities

Portfolio Management Summer Associate

Jun 2021 – Aug 2021 · 2 mos · Newport Beach, California, United States

Rotations in Investment Grade Credit and Commodities desks.
Created a report on the sector-wise impact of inflation
Backtested and presented results of various simulations and modifications of a critical strategy deployed by PIMCO

Citadel securities

Market Structure Analyst

Oct 2017 – Aug 2020 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Greater Chicago Area

Study and analyze patterns in market data to create or improve low latency strategies

Citadel llc

2 roles

FTAP

Jul 2016 – Oct 2017 · 1 yr 3 mos · Greater Chicago Area

Commodities Team
Provided solutions for the oilseeds models of the U.S. Agriculture desk.
Constructed a tool for capturing aggregate portfolio exposure for the Crude Oil desk. This tool relieved the desk from spending 45 minutes on a daily basis aggregating their portfolio exposure.
Provided solutions for the Backtesting framework.
Global Quantitative Strategies team
Constructed a Business Intelligence tool to capture usage statistics of vendor data.
Performed data analysis on the usage statistics of Market Data by the Quantitative Strategies team.

Intern

May 2015 – Aug 2015 · 3 mos · 131 S Dearborn Street, Chicago IL

Worked on the Citadel Mobile app (iOS based) actively used by analysts and PM's in the Global Equities team.

Abbvie

Intern

Aug 2015 – May 2016 · 9 mos · Urbana-Champaign Area

Data Science project to filter out "Science Spam". Abbvie researchers come across thousands of research papers and it would be helpful to filter out papers with non-replicable results and below average citations. There was also a need to weed out papers associated with topics that are replete with "science spam." Our team used LDA topic modeling technique to label the papers with their main topics.

Chicago trading company

Software Engineering Intern

May 2014 – Aug 2014 · 3 mos · Greater Chicago Area

Worked with an application that records and stores all the trades in JSON format.
Developed an interface to send messages to the flagging/warning system of the company.
Wrote Python code-generators using LISP. Created test cases using the Google C++ Testing framework to test for key market events and changes in the velocity of feeds.
Created an application that parsed the Google protocol buffer data sent by internal applications.
Trained by noted author Sheldon Natenberg on the key concepts of Options and Futures.
Also received training on the tricks of Open Outcry Trading.