Summary
Felipe Almeida is a data-driven quant researcher and trading director with 10+ years of experience designing market-risk frameworks, algorithmic trading systems, and automation pipelines at BTG Pactual Asset Management. He combines an MBA in Finance and honors in Computer Science with deep hands-on expertise in languages from C# and Python to C++ and VB.NET, plus extensive work with SQL and distributed systems to deliver performant, production-ready solutions. Felipe has led the prototyping-to-production lifecycle for systematic strategies, integrated alternative data and web-scraping for investment insights, and automated performance attribution to improve decision speed and accuracy. His background spans banking and insurance across Brazil and London, and he is a CFA Level III candidate and Microsoft Certified Professional, bringing both quantitative rigor and operational pragmatism. Notably, he has optimized extreme-value and VaR computations using distributed computing to scale risk analytics across large portfolios.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration (MBA), Finance and Financial Management Services, Master of Business Administration (MBA), Finance and Financial Management Services at IBMEC
High School, Computer Programming, High School, Computer Programming at IBPI - Instituto Brasileiro de Pesquisa em Informática
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science at Centro Universitário da Cidade
English