Summary
Eriz Zárate is a founder and deep-tech builder with eight years of experience designing self-evolving intelligence systems that automate software creation and generate trading alpha. Based in Dubai, he co-founded Brandfy.ai to streamline professional brand design and previously led AI-driven quant trading ventures that were acquired by a UAE family office. He has a strong track record in applied AI for finance—developing core models, open-source tools at Darwinex, and securing government grants and enterprise partnerships. Eriz combines hands-on engineering and executive leadership, having onboarded institutional partners like Fujitsu and delivered models for top-tier banks. An active DeFi investor and maker, he blends quant research, crypto arbitrage, and reinforcement learning expertise from Stanford coursework into product-focused ventures. Less obvious: he’s turned academic RL and quantitative finance training into commercial systems that attracted media attention and strategic acquisitions.
7 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
University Certificate in Python for Algorithmic Trading Quantitative Finance, University Certificate in Python for Algorithmic Trading Quantitative Finance at TPQ GmbH by Yves Hilpisch
Master program Best Performing Alumni Award in Batch 36 Econometrics and Quantitative Economics, Master program Best Performing Alumni Award in Batch 36 Econometrics and Quantitative Economics at QuantInsti
CME 241: Reinforcement Learning for Stochastic Control Problems in Finance Artificial Intelligence, CME 241: Reinforcement Learning for Stochastic Control Problems in Finance Artificial Intelligence at Stanford University
Spanish, Basque, English