Stephen Helms
Quantitative Developer And AI Champion
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolStephen Helms is a quantitative developer and AI champion with 12 years of experience translating messy, heterogeneous data into production-grade models and tooling for low-latency trading. Based in Amsterdam, he combines a research scientist’s rigor—holding a PhD and a background in high-throughput behavioral modeling—with hands-on engineering in Python, SQL, time-series databases and ML to optimize trading system performance and exchange dynamics. At Optiver he’s built latency optimization techniques, forecasting models, monitoring products and interactive analytics, and he teaches and mentors colleagues globally on using data to understand trading performance. He also drives AI initiatives to scale team capacity, bridging research, production deployment, and developer training. Notably, his trajectory from academic modeling of biological systems to real-time finance gives him a deep appreciation for stochastic processes and efficient, scalable data pipelines.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BS Biology Honors, BS Biology Honors at Indiana University BloomingtonPhD Cell Regulation Signal Transduction, PhD Cell Regulation Signal Transduction at UT Southwestern Medical Center
Spanish, English, Dutch
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Github Skills (29)
generative7
bayesian-methods6
statistics6
probabilistic5
machine-learning5
probabilistic-programming4
data-science4
deep-learning4
pep4
python4
tensorflow4
command-line-utility4
self-contained4
flask4
flask-restful3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
stephenhelms/WormTracker
Mar 2014 - Aug 2015
Contributions:25 commits, 1 push, 2 branches in 1 year 5 months
stephenhelms/adventofcode2020
Dec 2020 - Jan 2021
Advent of Code 2020 Solutions
Contributions:50 PRs, 28 pushes, 51 branches in 28 days
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