Lasse De La Porte Simonsen
Director Of Systems & Advanced Analytics at Macrosynergy
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolLasse De La Porte Simonsen is a Director of Systems & Advanced Analytics with eight years of experience turning economic research into production analytics and infrastructure at Macrosynergy. He holds a PhD in Economics and combines rigorous statistical modeling with hands-on engineering in Python, Julia, MATLAB and SQL to deliver robust analytics platforms. His background spans portfolio strategy, consultancy and central-bank research—where he analyzed 25 million price quotes to study UK inflation—bridging deep domain expertise and scalable systems design. Known for calm teamwork under extreme conditions (including two months living on an Icelandic glacier with colleagues and 27 dogs), he brings practical resilience and experimental curiosity to complex, data-driven problems.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc., Economics, Distinction, M.Sc., Economics, Distinction at Birkbeck College, University of LondonB.Sc., Global Studies and Technology & Socioeconomic Planning, B.Sc., Global Studies and Technology & Socioeconomic Planning at Roskilde UniversitetscenterDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Economics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Economics at Birkbeck, U. of London
English, Danish
Github Skills (4)
finance10
quantitative-finance10
python10
machine-learning1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
macrosynergy/.github
Jul 2022 - Nov 2023
Macrosynergy public GitHub repositories
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 1 push in 1 year 3 months
lsimonsen/treasurydirect
Apr 2018 - Sep 2018
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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