John Malik
Quantitative Researcher
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Malik is a quantitative researcher with eight years of experience applying mathematics and machine learning to trading and real-time products, currently working on Delta One strategies at Optiver. He holds a PhD in Mathematics from Duke and has built production ML for Alexa at Amazon, specializing in statistical and neural language modeling, time series analysis, and signal processing. His background blends pure and applied research across top institutions (Western, Toronto, Duke) with hands-on engineering to improve data labeling pipelines and real-time user interfaces. Known for manifold learning and rigorous experimental analysis, he brings a rare combination of deep theoretical skill and practical product impact, now based in Austin, Texas.
7 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Mathematics, Bachelor's Degree, Mathematics at Western UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Mathematics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Mathematics at Duke UniversityMathematics, Mathematics at University of Toronto
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (23)
kaggle10
parallel10
classification10
r10
data-mining10
gradient10
gradient-boosting10
lightgbm10
decision-tree10
microsoft9
catboost9
gbm9
python9
machine-learning9
ranking9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jrvmalik/time-frequency-analysis
Jun 2018 - Apr 2019
Contributions:15 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
jrvmalik/gradient-descent
Mar 2019 - Sep 2019
Contributions:6 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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