Kostis Gkionis
Quantitative Researcher
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolKostis Gkionis is a quantitative researcher with 10 years of experience blending empirical finance research and hands-on trading across FX options and equities. He holds advanced training in applied mathematics and financial economics (NTUA, Queen Mary) and has moved between research roles and front-office quant trading at UBS before joining Verition Fund Management. A prolific R programmer with production experience in Java, Python, Matlab and SQL, he excels at extracting insights from large, heterogeneous datasets and turning them into tradable strategies. His profile uniquely combines academic rigor—PhD-level research and a research associate post—with pragmatic implementation skills as a Java-focused developer showcased on GitHub. Based in London, he pairs deep quantitative modeling with practical trading intuition to bridge the gap between research and execution.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science in Mathematical Modelling in Modern Technologies and Financial Engineering Applied Mathematics, Master of Science in Mathematical Modelling in Modern Technologies and Financial Engineering Applied Mathematics at National Technical University of AthensDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Financial Economics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Financial Economics at Queen Mary University of LondonApolytirion, Apolytirion at Hellenic American Educational Foundation (Athens College)
English, Greek
Github Skills (17)
divide7
divide-and-conquer7
secure-communication6
serve5
lan5
java4
large-scale4
network-traffic4
logic4
traffic4
virtual-network3
internet3
network3
vpn3
networking2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
ITLabProject2016/internet_technology_lab_project
Jan 2016 - Aug 2017
Contributions:88 commits, 80 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
kostiskag/unitynetwork-rednode
Mar 2017 - Aug 2019
Unity Network is a virtual network (VPN) capable to be deployed in any kind of IP network as a LAN network or over the Internet. It is based on a divide and conquer logic with distributed roles, behavior and decupoled network traffic from the network logic which allows it to serve a large number of host-clients from many platforms.
Contributions:85 pushes, 11 branches in 2 years 5 months
serveunitytrafficlogiclarge-number
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