Kyle Balkissoon
Managing Partner - Portfolio Manager at Stance Capital
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolKyle Balkissoon is a portfolio manager and managing partner at Stance Capital with 13 years of experience building quantitative investment products that blend machine learning, optimization and ESG principles. He has taken models from proof-of-concept to production—running strategies that outperformed the S&P 500 net of fees and earned Morningstar five-star recognition. Kyle combines deep data-science chops (R, Python, Scala, C++, SQL) and big-data forecasting expertise with hands-on portfolio construction and trading experience across long/short and market-neutral strategies. His background includes leading IBM’s cognitive forecasting practice and delivering enterprise sales and marketing optimization for a Fortune 200, demonstrating an ability to translate advanced analytics into measurable business value. A multilingual thinker fluent in English and French, he also has entrepreneurial DNA—having launched three startups spanning investment management, renewable energy and marketing. He is particularly skilled at integrating alternative and unstructured data into production-ready models that drive both alpha and operational improvement.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Mathematical Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Mathematical Science at McMaster UniversityHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Rick Hansen Secondary SchoolMaster of Science (M.Sc.) Financial Markets, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Financial Markets at EDHEC Business School
English, French
Stackoverflow
348reputation
21kreached
7answers
3questions
Github Skills (39)
rcpp8
betting8
r-package8
bloomberg7
tradingview7
finance7
financial-data7
quantitative7
financial-instruments6
cran6
stochastic-processes6
slick6
sql6
quantmod6
quantitative-finance6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
kylebalkissoon/CodeExamples
Sep 2014 - Oct 2017
Contributions:47 commits, 43 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
kylebalkissoon/DSTrading
Sep 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:10 pushes in 2 days
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