Harshad Sawhney, CFA

CEO

Jersey City, New Jersey, United States14 yrs 2 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Over 10 years of experience in portfolio management.
Expert in building trading quantitative strategies.
CFA charter holder with strong technical skills.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and Robotics expert with extensive experience in quantitative finance and trading strategies.

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Skills

Core Skills

Portfolio ManagementRoboticsQuantitative Finance

Other Skills

Image ProcessingTrading StrategyBack-TestingData AnalysisData VisualizationPattern Analysis3-D MappingSwarm RoboticsAlgorithmsC++good at algorithmscoding and roboticsCMatlabProgramming

About

I have over 10 years experience as a porfolio manager and senior researcher at WorldQuant, LLC, New York. I am a Btech graduate from IIT Kanpur in Computer Science and engineering. I have a CFA charter and my experience encompasses building an end to end pipeline for trading quantitative strategies and models.

Experience

Worldquant

5 roles

Vice President Portfolio Management

Promoted

Jan 2023 – Dec 2025 · 2 yrs 11 mos

Portfolio Management

Regional Research Director

Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 · 2 yrs

Vice President Research

Promoted

Jul 2017 – Jan 2021 · 3 yrs 6 mos

Senior Quantitative Researcher

Promoted

Jul 2016 – Jun 2017 · 11 mos

Quantitative Researcher

Jul 2015 – Jun 2016 · 11 mos

Deutsche bank

Summer Internship

May 2014 – Jul 2014 · 2 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

Relative Value Trading Strategy:
1) Applied pair trading strategy over Emerging Markets bonds of Central Eastern Europe Middle East Africa & Latin America.
2) Created multi-layer filtering based on descriptive parameters to account for liquidity and bid-ask spread in the market.
3) Appraised various parameters & estimated trigger values by back-testing to determine entry and exit dates for trade pairs.
4) Divided historical data into training and validation set and forecasted DV01 neutral strategy with stop loss for such pairs.
5) Developed automated tool with user friendly interface & intuitive charts that forecasts profit earning trade pairs every day
Pattern Analysis for traders:
1) Created a trader’s perspective tool that helps in pattern analysis of flow trading business in bond markets.
2) Designed graphical objects & charts providing features for counterparty, issuer, bonds and books selection.
3) Provided country wise, different maturity buckets, top trading counterparties & top issuer bonds traded analysis.

Indian institute of technology, kanpur

2 roles

Coordinator Robotics Club

Promoted

Mar 2013 – Feb 2014 · 11 mos

Responsible for smooth conduction of events and projects conducted in IIT Kanpur under Robotics Club

Student

Jul 2011 – Jun 2015 · 3 yrs 11 mos

RUBIK’s CUBE SOLVER
 Built the project under Robotics Club, IIT Kanpur, 2012
 An autonomous 3x3 rubik’s cube solver robot.
 It performs image processing and solves the cube in less than 25 moves.
Member of the Abhyast Phase-IV, 2013 funded by Boeing
Created an event management based website as a project.

Boeing

Abhyast Phase IV research team

Jan 2013 – Mar 2014 · 1 yr 2 mos

 Webmaster of the Abhyast website. Link to the website is http://www.iitk.ac.in/dord/boeing/ .
 Working on a project to create a 3-D map of an unknown environment.
 Above task is achieved through a swarm of aerial quad rotors which communicates with a master ground robot.
 Simultaneously track the position of the ground master robot.
 Also find the optimal path to traverse between two points in the map avoiding obstacles.