Alex Wright
Director at Bank of America
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Wright is a Director in Global Risk Analytics at Bank of America with nine years of quantitative finance experience, progressing from Assistant VP to Director within the same team. He combines deep academic training—a PhD in computational astrophysics focused on neutron star merger simulations—with practical risk modeling and analytics for a major global bank. Comfortable translating complex numerical models into production-ready risk solutions, he brings a researcher's rigor to portfolio- and model-risk problems. Based in the UK, Alex blends quantitative finance with a curiosity for astronomy (his GitHub bio: "Part quant, part astro"), giving him a distinctive cross-disciplinary perspective that helps uncover non-obvious model behaviors.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Physics Physics with Theoretical Physics, Master of Physics Physics with Theoretical Physics at The University of ManchesterDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Next Generation Computational Modelling, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Next Generation Computational Modelling at University of Southampton
Github Skills (3)
hydrodynamics9
chemical-engineering9
numba8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
AlexJamesWright/METHOD
Oct 2017 - May 2021
Multifluid Electromagneto-HydroDynamics
Contributions:1 release, 1 review, 891 commits in 3 years 7 months
chemical-engineeringhydrodynamicsnumba
ngcm/git-intro
Oct 2016 - Mar 2021
Contributions:2 PRs in 4 years 6 months
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