Garv Lodha

Business Analyst

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India15 yrs 10 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in quantitative risk modeling and financial analysis.
  • Proficient in machine learning and automated trading systems.
  • Strong background in theoretical and particle physics research.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech expert with a strong foundation in quantitative finance and risk modeling.

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Skills

Core Skills

Financial AnalysisData AnalysisQuantitative FinanceRisk ModellingAutomated Trading SystemsMachine LearningTheoretical PhysicsStructured Products

Other Skills

Analytical SkillsQuantitative Risk ModelsExtreme Value TheorySensitivity AnalysisR ProgrammingSVMDeep LearningNaive-Bayes ClassifierC++PythonParticle Correlation MeasurementsSphericity AnalysisMulti-Variate AnalysisROOT TMVABackpropagation Algorithm

About

Financial Risk Modelling, C++ Programming, Machine Learning, Python Programming, HFT Strategies, Unix Systems, Treasury, Capital Markets, Derivative Pricing, Automated Trading Systems, Quantitative Finance

Experience

15 yrs 10 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 7 mos
Average Tenure
5 yrs 8 mos
Current Experience

Deutsche bank

CCAR PPNR Modeler

Oct 2020Present · 5 yrs 8 mos

Jpmorgan chase & co.

Market Risk Quant

Jun 2019Feb 2020 · 8 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

Analytical SkillsData AnalysisFinancial Analysis

Credit suisse

Market Risk Quant

Jul 2017May 2019 · 1 yr 10 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

  • Involved in the Methodolgy Development for the Economic and Regulatory Capital Models.
  • Developed Quantitative Risk Models for Equity Risk Arbitrage, Life Insurance Trades and Litigation
  • deals.
  • Recalibrated scaling factors for higher quantiles by fitting tail distribution using Extreme Value Theory
  • for both the models.
  • Documented and performed in-depth analysis for both the models in accord with the SR 11-7 guide-
  • lines which comprised of but not limited to sensitivity analysis, outcome analysis(backtesting), and
  • benchmarking.
  • Enhanced the pre-existing models methodologies for better estimation of the risk.
  • Fully implemented the excel based risk models in R programming language for faster computation and
  • analysis.
  • Implemented enhanced monte-carlo based solution for Credit Spread, Migration Risk and Default Risk
  • Overlap problem.
  • Researched on impact of overlapping returns on estimation of the risk at higher quantiles.
  • Worked on various statistical methods like Generalized Method of Moments(GMM) for estimating the
  • parameters and Expectation-Maximization for solving missing data problem.

Rbt algo systems private limited

Senior Trading Quant

Apr 2014Jun 2017 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Mumbai Area, India

  • Machine Learning Based Trading Algorithms
  • Developed pattern recognition model using SVM to determine RSI values which spot the market trends
  • Implemented the deep-learning neural network to model the major indices using technical indica-
  • tors.
  • Developed models based on Naive-Bayes Classifier and decision trees to determine the trending
  • stocks in Indian and US capital markets.
  • Bar-Breakout
  • Developed a Intra-Day Momentum Trading Strategy from widely used technical analysis library
  • TA-LIB in C++ on Interactive Broker(IB) Unix platform.
  • Implemented Socket Programming to create a hub of large no. individual investors connect to a
  • single IB C++ API.
  • Order Execution Optimization
  • Optimized the execution of large volume of trades in short time window of 10 minutes with
  • minimum impact on stock price.
  • Developed a highly profitable statistical algorithm based on the five-day rolling average to decide
  • the portfolio positions.
  • Performed risk analysis and backtesting for various trading strategies using pyfolio python library.
  • Deployed machine learning algorithms for trading in tensor-flow Python environment.

Indian institute of technology, bombay

2 roles

Senior Research Fellow

Sep 2013Mar 2014 · 6 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

  • Studied the higher-moments of particle multiplicity to locate the Critical Point for the first order
  • transition between hadron matter and quark-gluon plasma.
  • Carried out the charge-dependent Particle Correlation measurements to study the local parity violation.
  • Performed
  • Sphericity Analysis for the events producing Helium and Anti-Helium in Au-Au collisions
  • at √ s = 200GeV using the STAR detector.

Research Fellow

Feb 2010Aug 2013 · 3 yrs 6 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

  • Photon-Hadron Classification by Multi-Variate Analysis
  • Analysed different variables in Particle Multiplicty Detector in ALICE most appropriate for the
  • photon-hadron classification.
  • Achieved classification efficieny of 78% using ROOT TMVA package for GEANT4 generated
  • simulated data.
  • Researched different variants of the Classical Backpropogation Algorithm used to solve the pattern
  • recognition problem.
  • Analyzed the performance of the Scaled Conjugate Gradient Backpropogation Algorithm to clas-
  • sify the particles generated during high-energy collision in Large Hadron Collider(LHC).
  • Machine learning C++ Software Development
  • Developed a Multi-Layer Feed-Forward Neural Network Software in C++ which implements the
  • standard Backpropogation Algorithm for particle classification.
  • Re-Designed the pre-existing Support Vector Machine Software(LIBSVM) to meet the quality
  • coding standards required by the ALICE ROOT Framework in LHC.

Beans & intellect

Quantitative Analyst

Aug 2009Feb 2010 · 6 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

  • Structured Product Development
  • Implemented FX Range Accrual, Snowball and Digital Strip Options on KONDOR+ for a globally
  • well reputed bank.
  • Validated the pricing of the above instruments against the standard benchmark models available
  • in Numerix Pricing Engine with an approximate error range of +/−0.2%, +/−0.8% and +/−1.5%
  • respectively.
  • Option Trading Strategies, Option Pricing using Black Scholes Model

Department of finance, warrington college of business administration, university of florida

Intern

Jan 2008Jan 2008 · 0 mo · Gainesville Metropolitan Area

  • Developed the price determination models for the corn and wheat corps.
  • Estimated the model using step-wise multiple regression in SPSS.

Yes bank

Intern

Jan 2007Jan 2007 · 0 mo · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

  • Automated the treasury reports generation for various asset classes like Equities, Mutual Funds on Actuate Reporting System.

Education

Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

Engineering Physics

Jan 2009Present

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