Abid Islam
Senior Associate
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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Top SchoolAbid Islam is a risk-focused quantitative professional with 8 years of experience across model development, validation and model risk audit at leading global banks including Credit Suisse and J.P. Morgan. He progressed from credit risk modelling and prototype R tooling to validating liquidity models and now conducts internal model risk audits, giving him a rare end-to-end perspective on model lifecycle and governance. Based in Mumbai, he blends an engineering background (BE EEC, minor in Finance) with executive management training from IIM Calcutta to bridge technical quant work and business risk oversight. Colleagues value his practical experience translating complex quantitative methods into auditable, production-ready controls and recommendations. Notably, his early work included creating a custom R package for VaR prototyping, reflecting a hands-on approach to tooling alongside method expertise.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and ScienceExecutive Programme in General Management , Executive Programme in General Management at Indian Institute of Management, CalcuttaGithub contributions (5)
abid8042/Probabilistic-Programming-and-Bayesian-Methods-for-Hackers-in-Julia
Aug 2021 - Nov 2021
Contributions:32 commits, 17 pushes in 2 months
Contributions:20 commits, 17 pushes in 1 month
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