Derek Snow
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolDerek Snow is a machine learning and finance specialist with nine years of experience bridging academic research and industry productization, currently founding Sov.ai and serving as an AI Developer for Manulife Wealth & Asset Management in Boston. He has held academic roles from Assistant to Adjunct Professor at NYU and research positions at the Alan Turing Institute and University of Cambridge, translating advanced ML into quantitative finance applications. Derek’s background includes a PhD in Finance (first-class honours) and visiting scholar stints at Cambridge and NYU, giving him deep domain expertise in financial modeling and data-driven automation. He combines entrepreneurial drive with practical delivery—building analytics and automation projects that move models from research into operational systems. A not-obvious strength is his consistent movement between elite research institutions and market-facing roles, which enables rigorous methods to be applied under real-world constraints.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Visiting Scholar FRE, Ph.D. Visiting Scholar FRE at New York UniversityPh.D. Visiting Student CJBS, Ph.D. Visiting Student CJBS at University of CambridgeBachelors Finance, Bachelors Finance at Victoria University of WellingtonPhD & Honours (First Class) Finance, PhD & Honours (First Class) Finance at University of Auckland
Afrikaans
Github Skills (200)
language-model10
outliers10
cryptocurrency10
ets10
few-shot-learning10
tabular10
crawler10
extractor10
novelty-detection10
sec10
openai-gym10
big-data10
webscraping10
gradient-boosting10
api10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
firmai/google-colab-website
Jul 2020 - Sep 2020
Contributions:9 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
firmai/pandasvault
Mar 2020 - Oct 2021
Advanced Pandas Vault — Utilities, Functions and Snippets (by @firmai).
Contributions:75 commits, 3 PRs, 76 pushes in 1 year 7 months
functionspythondata-sciencedataframeethereum
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