Kunal Pattanayak

Product Engineer

New York City, New York, United States10 yrs 2 mos experience

Highly StableAI Enabled

Key Highlights

Expert in quantitative finance and statistical modeling.
Proven experience in developing systematic trading strategies.
Strong background in research and development in machine learning.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Quantitative Finance expert with a strong focus on machine learning and data analytics.

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Skills

Core Skills

Quantitative ResearchStatistical Signal ProcessingQuantitative FinanceRisk ModelingResearchData Analytics

Other Skills

AlgorithmsAmazon EC2Applied Machine LearningArtificial Intelligence (AI)Artificial Neural NetworksBayesian inferenceCC++Coding ExperienceComputer ScienceConvex OptimizationConvolutional Neural Networks (CNN)Data AnalysisData ScienceData Visualization

About

Quant at Engineers Gate

Experience

10 yrs 2 mos

Total Experience

1 yr 10 mos

Average Tenure

9 mos

Current Experience

Engineers gate

Quantitative Researcher

Sep 2025 – Present · 9 mos · New York, NY · On-site

Systematic L/S (Signal Research, Portfolio Construction and Optimization)

OptimizationPython (Programming Language)Quantitative ResearchStatistical Signal Processing

Goldman sachs

2 roles

Quant Equity Strategist

Mar 2025 – Sep 2025 · 6 mos · New York City Metropolitan Area · On-site

(GSAM) Quant Equity Solutions Strat - Systematic Options Strategies

Modeling and SimulationQuantitative FinanceQuantitative ResearchPricing theoryConvex Optimization

Quant Risk Strategist

Sep 2023 – Feb 2025 · 1 yr 5 mos · New York City Metropolitan Area · On-site

Liquidity Risk Strat - Financing Products

Risk ModelingQuantitative FinanceQuantitative ResearchQuantitative AnalyticsData Analysis

Radar

Research Engineer Intern

May 2022 – Aug 2022 · 3 mos · New York · Remote

RFID-based Inventory Tracking in Retail Stores
Identified and documented algorithm functionalities for boosting tracking accuracy and robustness
Provided a simulation based lookup table that estimates engineering and logistic specs required for achieving specific KPIs
Prototyped a customer behavior simulator as an early effort for backtesting inventory algorithm variants before deployment

Pandas (Software)Coding ExperienceData AnalyticsModeling and SimulationVersion ControlIntelligent Systems+7

Cornell university

2 roles

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Aug 2019 – May 2020 · 9 mos

Served as TA for:
ECE 3250 - Signals and Systems
ECE 2720 - Data Science for Engineers

Pandas (Software)Coding ExperienceData AnalyticsFinancial DataModeling and SimulationScikit-Learn+6

PHD Candidate

Sep 2018 – Aug 2023 · 4 yrs 11 mos

Awarded Cornell's McMullen Fellowship for incoming PhD students
Invited speaker at Sloan-NOMIS Conference on Attention and Applied Economics, 2020
Research interests: Inverse reinforcement learning, Adversarial machine learning, Information Economics, Applied microeconomics.
Research applications include radar systems, social multimedia, autonomous systems.
Graduate Coursework:
Graduate Probability Theory
Statistical Learning Theory
Bayesian Estimation and Stochastic Optimization
Applied Stochastic Processes
Financial Engineering and Stochastic Calculus
Advanced Machine Learning

Artificial Neural NetworksArtificial Intelligence (AI)Financial ModelingPandas (Software)GitHubCoding Experience+20

Indian institute of technology, kharagpur

Teaching Assistant

Jul 2017 – Aug 2018 · 1 yr 1 mo · Kharagpur Area, India

Digital Communication Laboratory
Analog Communication Laboratory

Data AnalyticsOptimizationResearchResearch and Development (R&D)Computer Science

Qualcomm

Firmware Engineer

May 2017 – Jul 2017 · 2 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

Optimized multi-threading operations of downlink signal processing in Qualcomm's QDSP6 processor
Reduced computation latency by 20% by improved scheduling of downlink operations

Statistical Data AnalysisOptimizationResearchResearch and Development (R&D)Computer Science

Trinity college dublin

Research Assistant

May 2016 – Jul 2016 · 2 mos · Dublin City, County Dublin, Ireland

Complex Systems Modeling of Decentralized Wireless Communication Protocols
Introduced a novel framework for parameter tuning of wireless communication protocols using complex systems theory

Coding ExperienceIntelligent SystemsOptimizationResearchResearch and Development (R&D)

Gunpoint technologies llp

Embedded Algorithms Development Engineer

Apr 2015 – Apr 2016 · 1 yr · Kharagpur Area, India

Built India's first (and world's third) battlefield simulation entertainment technology
(similar to LaserTag, but with more features).
Designed asynchronous non-conflicting wireless (infrared and radio) and wired protocols for communication between player suits and central server

Intelligent SystemsResearch

Swarm robotics

Electronics and Communication team member

Sep 2014 – Sep 2015 · 1 yr · IIT Kharagpur

A students' group, where we are currently working on relative localisation of robotic swarms using infrared transceivers on the decentralised communication front.

Intelligent SystemsResearch