Summary
Frederick Crimins is a technology leader and former quant who builds reliable, scalable data infrastructure for finance firms, currently serving as Director of Data Ops & Infra after leading reference data engineering at Two Sigma. He co-founded and led LeverData as CTO, where he commercialized a proprietary platform for data ingestion, validation, and monitoring, and earlier founded Hamstoo, an NLP-driven behavioral reading analytics startup. His background spans twelve years as a portfolio manager and quantitative analyst at top hedge funds and technical leadership in IBM Watson Health’s NLP efforts, giving him an unusual blend of production ML, data plumbing, and trading-floor rigor. A reproducibility enthusiast and “reformed quant,” he focuses on auditable, automated pipelines that reduce operational risk while making datasets trustworthy at scale. Educated in computer science and mathematics at Tufts, he combines research-grade technical depth with operator-level experience in mission-critical financial environments.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Tufts University