Gene Ekster
Data Analyst
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolGene Ekster is a data analyst and alternative data specialist with nine years of experience translating unstructured, noisy datasets into investable signals for institutional investors. He builds end-to-end data products and productionizes them across quantitative, quantamental, and long/short fundamental strategies, drawing on deep expertise in text mining, KDD, machine learning, and big data systems (R, Python, Perl, SQL/NoSQL). As an educator and industry builder, he launched and teaches the world’s first accredited Alternative Data course at NYU Courant and has founded and advised multiple firms and standards bodies in the space. His background spans buy-side R&D, data vendor partnerships, and product leadership, giving him a rare combination of academic rigor and hands-on engineering for monetizing novel data sources. An often-overlooked strength: he designs the information systems that make alternative signals auditable and scalable for institutional workflows.
9 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at University of California, BerkeleyMaster of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at Cornell Johnson Graduate School of ManagementMBA, MBA at Cornell University - S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management
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Github Skills (24)
prediction9
forecast8
prophet8
trend8
guid6
mobile6
parallel-processing6
api6
android6
ios6
r6
deep-learning5
forecasting5
machine-learning5
python5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
altdg/bulk_mapper
Jan 2019 - Feb 2022
Altdg bulk mapping tool for the merchant and domain mapper API https://developer.altdg.com/
Contributions:9 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
apimappingdomainmappermerchant
geneman/ourasl
Oct 2024 - Oct 2024
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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