Chris Mulligan
MD, Quantitative Researcher
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolChris Mulligan is a seasoned quantitative researcher and MD at Two Sigma with 16 years of experience designing trading strategies that blend NLP, text, and other unstructured data across multiple markets and horizons. He combines a Columbia education in computer science and statistics with deep hands-on data engineering from internships at The New York Times, Facebook, and Kickstarter, and earlier analytic leadership at YouGov and Polimetrix. At Two Sigma he progressed through roles from researcher to SVP and MD, translating academic rigor into production research and strategy delivery. His technical roots include low-level C systems work—memory management and simple shell implementations—reflecting a strong appreciation for robust, performance-conscious code alongside statistical modeling. Based in New York, he brings a rare mix of political-data experience, enterprise-scale analytics, and modern NLP-driven alpha generation.
16 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts - MA Statistics, Master of Arts - MA Statistics at Columbia University
Github Skills (9)
c1710
memory-management10
c1110
system-programming10
pointer10
scripting7
script7
sh7
shell7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
cs3157/recitations
Feb 2013 - Apr 2015
Recitation notes for cs3157, the C systems programming course with a narrative
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:85 commits, 4 PRs, 16 pushes in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Chris's contributions center around C programming, specifically focusing on memory management and pointer usage. They implemented and modified a C program (`pointerfun.c`) to demonstrate various pointer concepts, including local and heap variables, function pointers, and memory addresses. Further contributions involved exploring memory leaks and invalid write scenarios with related code examples. The user also created a simple shell implementation (`jsh.c`) to understand system processes and commands.
notesrecitationsystems-programmingprogramming-course
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