Fred Viole
Founder at OVVO Financial Systems
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFred Viole is a founder and quantitative researcher based in the New York City area with three decades of trading experience across equities, FICC and derivatives and over a decade in formal research leadership. He built OVVO Labs and leads research at OVVO Financial Systems, authoring the NNS R-package and contributing to meboot to operationalize novel nonlinear statistical techniques for automated trading and portfolio optimization. His work spans numerical analysis, machine learning, risk management and behavioral finance, and he demonstrates practical impact by shipping live nowcasting, options and portfolio demo apps that showcase NNS. Previously he managed a $35M multi-asset portfolio and developed market-making infrastructure, blending hands-on trading operations with low-latency engineering. A published researcher with papers on SSRN and an editorial background in behavioral finance, he prefers sharing fully documented, public implementations and fields serious inquiries for applied deployments.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Economics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Economics at Fordham UniversityB.S., Economics, B.S., Economics at Villanova University
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Github Skills (63)
nonlinear10
missing-data10
online-algorithms10
sec10
statistics10
machine-learning10
time-series10
pmdarima10
econometrics10
kalman-filter10
game-theory10
pls10
linear-models10
keras10
information-theory10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
OVVO-Financial/Number-Theory
Apr 2017 - Feb 2025
Contributions:167 pushes, 2 branches in 7 years 11 months
OVVO-Financial/NNS
Mar 2017 - Jan 2023
Nonlinear Nonparametric Statistics
Contributions:3782 commits, 9 PRs, 3955 pushes in 5 years 10 months
plsnonparametric-statisticslinear-modelstime-seriesstatsmodels
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