James Mccorriston
Product Manager at Robinhood
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Mccorriston is a product manager with a computer science foundation and 13 years of experience designing and shipping technical products, currently building at Robinhood in Boston. He blends hands-on data science chops from his Quantopian days—where he contributed tutorial notebooks and custom factor implementations for a widely used quantitative research repo—with user-focused product work across complex data systems and consumer-facing applications. At Quantopian he progressed from community support to product roles, giving him a pragmatic empathy for developer and researcher workflows. His academic background in computer science and biology from McGill informs a methodical, data-driven approach to product decisions. Known for translating algorithmic complexity into accessible user experiences, he excels at bridging engineering, research, and customer needs.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science and Biology, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science and Biology at McGill University
English, French
Github Skills (8)
finance10
pandas10
statistical-models10
python10
modeling10
numpy10
data-analysis9
time-series9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
quantopian/research_public
Feb 2017 - Jun 2020
Quantitative research and educational materials
Role in this project:
Data Scientist
Data ScientistContributions:31 commits, 33 PRs, 22 pushes in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:James added and modified tutorial notebooks related to quantitative research and educational materials, specifically focusing on time series analysis, factors, and contest criteria. The changes included implementing and refining a custom factor, standard deviation, for use in a pipeline. The modifications also involved updating the scoring function and fixing the beta calculation. These commits demonstrate work on educational content and factor research.
quantitative-researchsciencebrain-computer-interfacedata-sciencescientific-computing
jmccorriston/xgoals_data
Nov 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 29 days
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