Imran Shakir
Quantitative Technology Director
Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong, China
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Top SchoolImran Shakir is a Quantitative Technology Director with 11 years’ experience building production-grade trading and data platforms for hedge funds, combining a first-class Mathematics degree from Cambridge with deep hands-on software engineering. He has led the transfer and integration of IP between firms, founded and scaled Chorus teams into Qube Research, and currently directs the development of signal and machine-learning platforms used for live trading. Imran’s background spans low-latency data systems, cloud and HPC orchestration (Slurm, S3, CloudWatch), and end-to-end ML equity-alpha ecosystems, giving him rare fluency from research prototypes through to daily decision systems. Comfortable both managing senior teams and contributing core libraries, he has a track record of improving firm scalability and accelerating researcher onboarding across global operations. Based in Hong Kong, he brings a mix of rigorous quantitative training and practical production experience that consistently turns research into deployable, risk-aware strategies.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Mathematics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Mathematics at University of CambridgeEdgbarrow
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (21)
jinja210
template-engine10
mls9
python9
espn9
expressive9
collections6
activerecord6
rake6
ruby-on-rails6
ruby6
rubocop6
static-analysis6
controller6
whenever6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ishakir/PokeStat
Jan 2015 - Mar 2021
Contributions:15 pushes, 10 comments, 18 issues in 6 years 3 months
dayoadeyemi/ld-32
Apr 2015 - Mar 2021
Contributions:32 pushes, 5 comments, 16 issues in 5 years 11 months
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