Hatim Kagalwala
Applied Scientist II at Amazon
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHatim Kagalwala is an applied scientist with nine years of experience building data-driven products and decision systems across finance and e-commerce, currently scaling seller insights at Amazon. He combines an MS in Financial Engineering from NYU and a strong data-science training path (UCSD, Georgia Tech, WorldQuant) to translate business problems into forecasting, pricing, and risk models that drive measurable outcomes. Prior roles at American Express and a fintech lender show depth in credit, fraud, CCAR, and pricing strategy, while earlier quant work reduced P&L variance by 98% through advanced option hedging. Hatim blends hands-on Python engineering, automated reporting and alerting, and Tableau visualization with stakeholder-facing product sense, enabling faster decisions for commercial teams. He’s based in Seattle and known for pairing rigorous academic methods with pragmatic automation to operationalize ML in production.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Mechanical Engineering, 3.7/4.0, Bachelor’s Degree, Mechanical Engineering, 3.7/4.0 at University of MumbaiMaster’s Degree, Financial Engineering (Data Science), 3.7/4.0, Master’s Degree, Financial Engineering (Data Science), 3.7/4.0 at New York UniversityBootcamp, Data Science, Bootcamp, Data Science at WorldQuant UniversityUniversity of California, San DiegoJunior College, Science, Junior College, Science at St. Xavier's CollegeOnline MicroMasters, Analytics, Online MicroMasters, Analytics at Georgia Institute of Technology
English, Hindi, Gujarati
Github Skills (10)
statistics4
principal-component-analysis4
double4
python3
machine-learning3
statistical-inference3
causal-inference3
econometrics3
data-science2
scikit-learn2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
hjk612/Financial-Computing-Project
Feb 2018 - Aug 2018
Contributions:4 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
hjk612/GATech-ISYE6501
Aug 2018 - May 2020
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
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