Daniel Walker
Senior Quantitative Analyst
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolDaniel Walker is a Senior Quantitative Analyst in New York with eight years of experience translating advanced mathematics into production-ready pricing tools and predictive models for energy markets. Trained as a set theory specialist with a PhD and a strong applied statistics/data science background, he bridges deep theoretical knowledge with pragmatic software development and platform transformation. At Constellation he prices complex wholesale and retail-exotic products, coordinates cross-functional pricing decisions, and implements new models and features that respond to market rule changes. His past roles include virus-variant discovery using unsupervised learning and building OLAP-driven predictive analytics for thousands of hotels, reflecting a rare mix of academic rigor and hands-on engineering. Colleagues rely on him for clear communication of complex concepts and for turning research-level ideas into robust, auditable systems.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Applied Statistics, Bachelor of Science, Applied Statistics at Penn State UniversityJohns Hopkins University
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Github Skills (102)
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
nickeldan/reap
Apr 2022 - Jun 2023
C library for Linux to make processing of procfs easier
Contributions:24 releases, 3 reviews, 26 PRs in 1 year 2 months
linuxprocfsc-libraryc
nickeldan/pipeline
Mar 2019 - Jun 2022
Pipeline is an in-development programming language. It is not meant to fill a niche but is purely for self-learning.
Contributions:212 commits, 4 PRs, 205 pushes in 3 years 4 months
nichefillpythonpipelineself-learning
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