Aldous Birchall
Chief Data Scientist
Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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Top SchoolAldous Birchall is a Chief Data Scientist based in Geneva with a rare blend of senior trading and AI leadership, driving front-office AI, data engineering and cloud programs at Trafigura. He has over two decades of capital markets experience and a decade focused on deploying production ML and digitalisation across trading businesses, having led data science practices at Accenture and PwC and founded a boutique quant consultancy. His background as a portfolio manager and head of systematic trading gives him deep domain expertise in credit, derivatives and macro strategies, allowing him to translate complex quantitative research into robust, production-grade models. Aldous pairs academic rigor—a physics MSci and an MSc in Machine Learning—with hands-on nanodegrees in ML and AI, reflecting continuous upskilling. Known for building multidisciplinary teams that bridge quant research and engineering, he excels at turning experimental models into governed, scalable solutions for revenue-generating desks. Despite a senior career, he still codes and stays current with practical ML engineering and cloud deployment patterns.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Dip Psych (Open) Psychology, Dip Psych (Open) Psychology at The Open UniversityMSci Physics, MSci Physics at Imperial College LondonMachine Learning Engineer Nanodegree, Machine Learning Engineer Nanodegree at Udacity
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Github contributions (5)
aldousbirchall/MachineLearning_SmartBeta_Pipeline
Jan 2016 - Jan 2016
Contributions:20 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 10 days
aldousbirchall/RegressionTree
Dec 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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