Saeed Amen
Founder at Turnleaf Analytics / Cuemacro
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarSaeed Amen is a founder and quantitative technologist with 11 years of experience building systematic trading models and vertical AI for economic forecasting. As co-founder and CTO of Turnleaf Analytics he leads development of the MARCOS platform, which produces inflation forecasts across 36 countries and ranks among top forecasters on Bloomberg’s US CPI survey. He began his career developing FX strategies at Lehman Brothers (co-developing MarQCuS with $2bn AUM) and later worked at Nomura, then turned independent to author books on trading and alternative data. An active open-source maintainer, he has contributed to Python libraries for market data ingestion and backtesting (findatapy, finmarketpy), improving documentation and core functionality to make research reproducible. He combines deep math, coding and macro-market expertise, and routinely presents at central banks and major quant conferences.
11 years of coding experience
English, Arabic, French
Github Skills (13)
finance10
pandas10
analyse10
statistical-models10
python10
backtesting10
modeling10
documentation10
backtest10
data-analysis10
price-data9
stock-data9
market-prices9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
cuemacro/findatapy
Aug 2016 - Aug 2022
Python library to download market data via Bloomberg, Eikon, Quandl, Yahoo etc.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:39 releases, 1 review, 484 commits in 6 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Saeed primarily contributed to the codebase by adding and modifying documentation within the Python files. The code changes focused on adding documentation and removing commenting out, including several files within the findatapy package such as datavendorweb.py, market.py, indicesfx.py, and examples. This suggests a focus on improving code maintainability and understanding through enhanced documentation.
python-librarypythonfredarcticbloomberg
cuemacro/teaching
Oct 2019 - Apr 2022
Teaching Resources for Cuemacro courses
Contributions:119 commits, 121 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
teachingjupyter-notebookbinder
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