Nikita Singh

Co-Founder

Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India3 yrs 5 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • Built a Quant community of 90K+ members.
  • Mentored over 1000 individuals in Quant careers.
  • Developed a pricing library for structured products.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech professional with strong quantitative research and mentoring capabilities.

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Skills

Core Skills

Quantitative FinanceQuantitative ResearchProfessional MentoringLeadershipTeachingEquity DerivativesProblem SolvingMentoring

Other Skills

AccountabilityAlgorithmsAtmel AVRCC++Career DevelopmentCascading Style Sheets (CSS)CoachingContent StrategyData ScienceData StructuresDeep LearningDerivativesFull-Stack DevelopmentGNU Octave

About

I am a Quant Researcher with over 2 years of experience working in investment bank. I have also worked in data science and software development domains prior to transitioning as a Quant. With my diverse work experiences of working in startups as well as top MNCs, I bring unique perspectives, adaptability and ability to thrive in high-growth environment. I have pursued my bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering from the prestigious IIT Kanpur. I come from a combination of financial, mathematical and programming background. I am interested in exploring opportunities related to Quant Research / Strategist to apply my knowledge and skills to solve challenging problems in trading and investment space. I am a passionate learner and I love to regularly write about the stuff I learn everyday. I also like to mentor and educate people by sharing my industry knowledge and help them land their dream job in quant field. I got this incredible opportunity to be a Quant Mentor and Educator through TopMate. I have successfully mentored 1k+ students/professionals so far through webinars, 1:1 sessions and other platforms. Read my Quant Blogs here - https://medium.com/@nikitasinghiitk If you made it this far, let’s have a coffee, virtual or real. Feel free to drop a message if you feel I can contribute to you in any way!

Experience

3 yrs 5 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 1 mo
Average Tenure
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Current Experience

Quant insider

Co-Founder

Aug 2023Jun 2024 · 10 mos · India

  • Notable achievements :
  • > Built a Quant community of 90K+ members on LinkedIn company page within 6 months of launch
  • > Mentored 1000+ people in successfully navigating their Quant journey
  • > Top Rated in Finance Category and ranked 1st in Quant Finance content
  • > Organized webinar related to Quant competitions and hackathons
  • > Organized Quant Finance workshop at IIT Madras and IIT Delhi in their Finance Summit
Quantitative FinanceQuantitative ResearchGrowth StrategiesContent StrategyMarketing StrategyUser Research+5

Topmate.io

Quant Educator

Apr 2023Apr 2024 · 1 yr · India · Remote

  • Top 1% on Topmate | Top Rated Quant Career Coach
TeachingCoachingCareer DevelopmentMentoringQuantitative Research

Jpmorgan chase & co.

Quantitative Research Analyst

Jul 2021Jun 2024 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

  • Member of front office Quantitative Research - Equities Derivatives team.
  • Responsible for infrastructure coding of pricing library (C++) using Monte-Carlo engine used for pricing Equity and FX structured products for calculating FV, performance scenarios, minimum return and risk metrics like VAR, risk premium etc.
  • Major responsibilities include developing low-level multi-threaded optimization and numerical libraries, integrating Python with C++, for pricing of Structured Equity Derivative OTC products including structured notes, barrier options and daily accumulator.
  • Developed Python based system for automated testing of core pricing library (C++) releases reducing the manual testing effort by 90%.
  • Handled major releases of pricing library including debugging, bug fixing and testing for performance, PnL impacts and release related production impacts.
StatisticsEquity DerivativesPythonRegression ModelsProblem SolvingDerivatives+5

Dfy graviti technologies private ltd

Data Science and Software Intern

Jan 2021Mar 2021 · 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

StatisticsProbability Theory

Samsung r&d institute delhi

Software Developer Internship

May 2020Jun 2020 · 1 mo

  • Developed an end-to-end VOIP web application using WebRTC framework including functionality to change media stream constraints, & record and download remote user's audio. Application was developed using WebRTC APIs and self developed APIs (Media recording). It connected to remote user by initiating a call session through signalling server (nodejs) and using ICE connectivity based STUN & TURN server.
  • Created a state-of-the-art analysis of research paper tittled "Feature Learning with Raw-waveform CLDNNs for Voice Activity detection". Developed a deep learning model CLDNN using keras library to learn features for VAD.

Prof amit verma, dept. of ee, iitk

Summer Research Project

May 2019Aug 2019 · 3 mos · Kanpur Nagar, Uttar Pradesh, India

  • Designed and implemented a frequency tunable voltage-controlled oscillator using PN junction diode as a tuning element. Worked out and analyzed the best topology for a tunable oscillator with wide frequency range - Colpitts Oscillator.
  • Designed the circuit given particular specifications, simulated on Micro-Cap & did DC, AC and Fourier Analysis of the circuit. Implemented the oscillator circuit on a breadboard and compared the simulation results using the oscilloscope.

Microsoft

Microsoft Codess Mentorship Program

May 2019Jul 2019 · 2 mos

  • Selected as a mentee in Microsoft Codess mentorship program and received mentorship from highly skilled professionals of Microsoft in programming and problem solving skills.

Udghosh, iit kanpur

Public Relations Manager

Apr 2019Oct 2019 · 6 mos · Greater Lucknow Area

Prof r hegde, hod dept. of ee, iitk

Winter Project

Dec 2018Jan 2019 · 1 mo

  • Devised a method using spectral learning algorithm for simultaneous localization and mapping(SLAM) from range data with known correspondences (position of beacons)
  • Developed MATLAB code to simultaneously estimate the robot’s trajectory and locations of the landmarks by using SVD (singular value decomposition) as well as online SLAM approach

Cse department, iit kanpur

Summer Internship

May 2018Jul 2018 · 2 mos · kanpur

  • Developed a Web App deployed using Microsoft Azure which aimed to tackle mental illness by providing useful resources as well as medical support. It detected psychological disorder using a predefined algorithm (at the back-end) based on user response to a set of fixed questions , implemented using PHP and database.

Electronics club iit kanpur

Summer Project - Stackable 3D display

May 2018Jul 2018 · 2 mos · Greater Lucknow Area

  • Designed a 8*8*8 LED Cube capable of displaying 3D patterns & animations using principle of POV. Each Led in a layer was controlled using demultiplexer & all layers were controlled by separate demultiplexer. LED Cube was programmed by AtMega16 microcontroller using AVR Studio environment.

Education

Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

Bachelor's degree

Aug 2017May 2021

DAV Public School, Kota

XII CBSE — PCM

Jan 2015Jan 2017

St Mary's School Moradabad

X CBSE

Jan 2014Jan 2015

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