Carlos Salas
Freelance Consultant - Investment Research Management And Machine Learning at Goldsmiths, University of London
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolCarlos Salas is an FCA-regulated portfolio manager, data scientist and freelance investment researcher based in London with nine years of professional experience applying machine learning to equity investing and portfolio management. He advises family offices and a top-tier investment bank via Toptal, delivering bottom-up idea generation, quantamental scoring systems, ML backtests and asset allocation recommendations. Formerly Head of Equities and Portfolio Manager, he scaled strategies to over $1B AuM and combined systematic ML screening with disciplined fundamental analysis to achieve double-digit returns and industry awards. His background includes proprietary trading experience at Jefferies, where he built ML models to shortlist long/short ideas and managed derivatives hedging and execution, and earlier roles focused on automated financial statement analysis and pair-trading surveillance. Carlos also teaches ML for investments at Goldsmiths and brings practical training experience to clients across banks, pension plans and family offices. A quietly technical investor, he blends production-grade Python/R tooling with forensic accounting and practical portfolio execution.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
IMC (Investment Management Certificate), IMC (Investment Management Certificate) at CFA Society UKDegree, Degree at Universitat d'AlacantCertificate, Certificate at CFA InstituteCQF Institure - Certificate in Quantitative Finance, CQF Institure - Certificate in Quantitative Finance at CQF InstituteMSc, MSc at NYC Data Science AcademyLondon School of Economics and Political Science, U. of LondonMsc, Msc at Afi Escuela de Finanzas
Spanish, English, French
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Github Skills (5)
mongodb4
javascript3
nodejs3
insider1
trading1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
Carlossn/Tools
Aug 2018 - Jan 2020
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
Carlossn/Test
Nov 2017 - Jul 2018
Contributions:15 pushes, 5 branches in 7 months
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