Summary
Malte Kurz is a Principal Engineer with 11 years of experience at the intersection of financial engineering, machine learning and production software, currently leading Financial Engineering at Scalable Capital. He holds a PhD in Statistics from LMU Munich where his research advanced high-dimensional dependence modeling for financial econometrics, and he has continued that blend of theory and practice through postdoctoral work and industry research leadership. Malte is a core developer of the DoubleML Python and R packages, reflecting a sustained open-source commitment to causal and ML methods in econometrics. His career spans hands-on quant roles, team leadership, and VP-level research management, giving him a rare ability to translate cutting-edge statistical methods into robust, scalable investment technology. Notably, he repeatedly returned to scale-up environments, signaling a talent for operationalizing research in fast-moving fintech contexts.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
B.Sc., Mathematical Finance, B.Sc., Mathematical Finance at Universität Konstanz