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Kumar Basu

Founder

Kolkata, West Bengal, India7 yrs 5 mos experience
AI EnabledAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

  • 5× founder with proven global infrastructure experience
  • Expert in AI-driven quantitative finance solutions
  • Innovative leader in automating financial decision-making
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech expert specializing in AI-driven quantitative solutions and financial infrastructure.

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Skills

Core Skills

Quantitative FinanceAlgorithmic TradingArtificial Intelligence (ai)Machine LearningUser Experience (ux)Product DesignAi Molecular ModelingComputational Drug DiscoverySmall Language Models (slms)Cro ManagementGraph Neural NetworksPredictive AnalyticsAgentic Ai DevelopmentFinancial Data AnalysisGenerative AiMulti-omics AnalysisAi StrategyModel QuantizationNatural Language Processing (nlp)GenomicsBioinformaticsMobile Application DevelopmentToxicity PredictionBiomarker DiscoveryMulti-agent SystemsSales AutomationTechnical ArchitectureRetrieval-augmented Generation (rag)

Other Skills

Quantitative ResearchFinancial ModelingBacktestingSoftware DevelopmentPython (Programming Language)Data EngineeringFlutterJavaLogo DesignMolecular SimulationsDeep LearningDeep Reinforcement LearningPredictive ModelingDrug–Target Interaction (DTI) PredictionQuantization Techniques

About

$4.7 Trillion in AUM. One Brain. Institutional finance is drowning in data but starving for reasoning. In 2026, the cost of manual analysis & the "Time-to-Decision" gap are the silent killer of alpha. At Quant+, we have collapsed that gap. As a 5× founder (Ex-NeuroGene Lab), I specialize in building "Category Replacement" technology & Quant+ is the Financial Operating System for the modern era, fusing quantitative precision with a proprietary 30B-parameter AI to move capital from "Data Retrieval" to "Autonomous Reasoning" at machine speed. We aren't just a vision; we are a proven global infrastructure. Currently trusted by institutional users across 30+ countries, Quant+ provides the analytical brain that hedge funds, family offices, and prop desks need to outperform. We have collapsed the fragile bridge of manual research. Our platform delivers analysis-grade intelligence in seconds, allowing funds to replace $500K/year analyst overhead with a scalable, zero-hallucination AI brain. The Quant+ Edge - 1. Market-Leading Adoption: Our core Backtesting Engine maintains a 91% adoption rate and is validated on 10+ years of data with a 0.6% error rate. 2. Proprietary Institutional AI: A 30-billion parameter model trained exclusively on institutional datasets, delivering analysis-grade intelligence in under 60 seconds. 3. Deterministic Control: A proprietary logic layer that eliminates AI hallucinations, ensuring auditable, risk-managed outputs for the world’s most sophisticated desks. The Impact - Quant+ is engineered to deliver a +42% target increase in risk-adjusted returns by automating the reasoning layer of institutional desks. We replace 3 days of manual analyst work with instant, actionable intelligence, allowing hedge funds, family offices, and prop trading firms managing $50M to $5B+ to scale without linear head-count costs. We are scaling the global footprint of Quant+ to capture the $83.1B AI-fintech market. We aren’t just offering a tool; we are defining the new standard for how the world’s elite trading desks manage risk and alpha. Quant+ is the definitive infrastructure finance needs right now, engineered for those who refuse to let the market move without the best possible reasoning. Core Expertise & Focus - Quantitative Finance Institutional Intelligence Systematic Trading AI-in-Fintech Hedge Fund Infrastructure Risk-Adjusted Returns Financial Modeling Alpha Generation High-Frequency Trading (HFT) Asset Management Fintech SaaS Enterprise Licensing API Infrastructure Decision Support Systems Capital Markets Deterministic AI

Experience

7 yrs 5 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 2 mos
Average Tenure
10 mos
Current Experience

Quant+ ai

Founder & CEO

Jan 2026Present · 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · Hybrid

  • Building plug-and-play alpha signals and backtestable modules for modern quants. Delivering auditable data-driven insights, portfolio APIs, and subscription-based quant solutions for hedge funds, prop desks, and quant fintechs.
Quantitative ResearchAlgorithmic TradingFinancial ModelingBacktestingSoftware DevelopmentPython (Programming Language)+2

Zenvia

2 roles

Founding Engineer

Promoted

Oct 2025Present · 7 mos · New York City Metropolitan Area · Hybrid

  • Building AI-powered fintech solutions with Flutter, Java, and ML. Led development of intelligent expense tracking (94% accuracy), real-time financial insights dashboard, and AI-driven fraud detection systems.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)FlutterJavaMachine Learning

Senior Product Designer

Jul 2025Oct 2025 · 3 mos · New York City Metropolitan Area · Hybrid

  • Trading apps often feel overwhelming - too many numbers, too little clarity. My goal was to simplify complex flows, reduce cognitive load, and design an experience that feels fast, calm, and trustworthy. Focused on usability, real trader pain points, and clean decision-first design throughout the product.
User Experience (UX)Product DesignLogo Design

Klyra

Lead AI Growth Engineer

Apr 2025Jun 2025 · 2 mos · Florida, United States · Remote

  • Engineered custom SLM for real-time fraud detection, improving threat detection by 60% and conversion by 22% while preventing $2M+ losses. Optimized to handle 1M+ daily transactions at sub-50ms latency.
Small Language Models (SLMs)Quantization TechniquesCRO ManagementB2B Marketing Strategy

Aurex

Founding AI Engineer

Jan 2025Mar 2025 · 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · Remote

  • Architected GNN mapping financial relationships, improving credit prediction accuracy by 30%. Built Predictive ICP Engine identifying top 5% prospects, increasing Sales-Qualified Leads by 15% and customer retention by 12%.
Graph Neural NetworksPredictive AnalyticsCredit Risk ManagementLead Scoring

Finiq

AI Revenue Architect

Oct 2024Dec 2024 · 2 mos · New York, United States · Remote

  • Developed multi-agentic system automating asset rebalancing and content generation for 10k+ institutional clients, reducing production costs by 80% while informing $10M+ GTM strategy through RAG-based intelligence.
Agentic AI DevelopmentRetrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)Content AutomationFinancial Data Analysis

Hawk ai

Founding AI Engineer

Jul 2024Sep 2024 · 2 mos · Greater Seattle Area · Remote

  • Built a surveillance SLM and GAN-based video generator, advancing real-time threat detection by 60% and reducing false alerts by 45%.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Generative AIMachine LearningSmall Language Models (SLMs)

Neurogene labs

Founder & CEO

Apr 2024Nov 2025 · 1 yr 7 mos · California, United States · Remote

  • Developed sophisticated AI pipelines for drug-target prediction and molecular simulations, accelerating discovery timelines by 40% using multi-omics analysis.
AI Molecular ModelingMolecular SimulationsMulti-Omics AnalysisBioinformaticsDeep LearningDeep Reinforcement Learning+4

Omnivis bio

AI Research Director

Jan 2024Jun 2024 · 5 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · Remote

  • Led multi-omics AI research, boosting oncology model performance by 40% and enabling secure, cross-institutional genomic insights via federated learning.
Multi-Omics AnalysisBioinformaticsDeep LearningResearch LeadershipAI StrategyOncology AI

Neovan labs

Lead AI Engineer

Aug 2023Dec 2023 · 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · Remote

  • Built multi-modal AI engine and LLM-BioBERT pipeline, accelerating drug discovery by 50% and enhancing target identification accuracy by 35%.
Model QuantizationModel PruningKnowledge DistillationInference OptimizationModel CompressionNatural Language Processing (NLP)+1

Cythera genomics

AI Scientist

Feb 2023Jul 2023 · 5 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · Remote

  • Designed transformer and GNN models for genomics, boosting disease classification accuracy by 30% and accelerating biomarker discovery by 40%.
GenomicsBioinformaticsBiomarker DiscoveryComputational BiologyTransformer ModelsGraph Neural Networks+2

Hivn

Full-Stack AI Engineer

Dec 2022Jan 2023 · 1 mo · Florida, United States · Remote

  • Created AI-powered platform letting non-technical users build and deploy web or Mobile apps via simple prompts. Generated 10K+ applications. Users launched startups 90% faster than traditional development.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Mobile Application DevelopmentAmazon Web Services (AWS)Web Application DevelopmentFull-Stack Development

Helixon labs

ML Associate

Oct 2022Nov 2022 · 1 mo · San Francisco Bay Area · Remote

  • Developed ML models using SMILES embeddings for toxicity prediction, improving QSAR accuracy by 18% and automating 90% of compound screening.
Toxicity PredictionMachine LearningQSAR ModelingSMILESRDKitScikit-Learn

Novacura

AI Researcher

Apr 2022Sep 2022 · 5 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · Remote

  • Built GNN models and pipelines for biomarker discovery, refining binding accuracy by 15% and reducing analysis time.
Graph Neural NetworksBiomarker DiscoveryData ModelingComputational BiologyBioinformatics PipelinesModel Optimization+2

Cogniship

Principal AI Strategist

Jan 2022Mar 2022 · 2 mos · Greater Seattle Area · Remote

  • Engineered GNN-based supplier risk mapping and invoice discounting engine using alternative data signals, increasing platform transaction volume by 35% and reducing supply chain disruption costs by 15%.
Graph Neural NetworksPredictive AnalyticsSupply Chain Risk ModelingChurn Prediction

Xonotic

AI Solutions Architect

Oct 2021Dec 2021 · 2 mos · New York, United States · Remote

  • Built agentic AI systems automating lead qualification, content personalization, and due diligence, increasing email engagement by 48% while cutting partnership cycles by 67%.
Multi-agent SystemsRetrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)Sales AutomationGenerative AI

Cleon labs

4 roles

Lead AI Engineer

Promoted

May 2020Sep 2021 · 1 yr 4 mos · California, United States · Remote

  • Directed AI strategy for next-generation language models and agentic systems, implementing MoE architectures and orchestration frameworks that automated 70% of workflows, saving $3M+ annually.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Full-Stack DevelopmentMachine LearningAI StrategySmall Language Models (SLMs)Large Language Models (LLM)+3

Senior AI Engineer

Jan 2019Apr 2020 · 1 yr 3 mos · California, United States · Remote

  • Led advanced SLM architecture and multi-agent systems using LangChain, pioneering optimization strategies (GPTQ, LoRA, pruning) that reduced deployment costs by 65% across 2M+ daily inferences.
Agentic AI DevelopmentTechnical ArchitectureModel CompressionLangChain

AI Engineer

Jan 2018Dec 2018 · 11 mos · California, United States · Remote

  • Deployed custom SLMs and production RAG systems processing 500K+ daily queries, implementing 8-bit quantization and knowledge distillation that reduced inference costs by 40%.
Small Language Models (SLMs)Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)Quantization TechniquesVector Databases

AI Engineering Intern

Jul 2017Dec 2017 · 5 mos · California, United States · Remote

  • Supported development of Small Language Models and RAG pipelines, implementing quantization and pruning experiments that achieved 2-3x inference speedups on initial production benchmarks.

Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Transformers: Theory

Stanford University

Machine Learning — Artificial Intelligence

Calcutta University, Kolkata

Master of Science - MS — Computer Science

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Introduction To Deep Learning — Artificial Intelligence

Stanford University

Transformers For Natural Language Processing — Artificial Intelligence

Harvard University

Advanced Algorithms — Computer Science

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Algorithms — Computer Science

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Linear Algebra & Matrix Methods — Applied Mathematics

Harvard University

Probability — Mathematics

Imperial College London

Mathematics For Machine Learning — Applied Mathematics

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