Terry Leitch
Founder at ruxton.ai
Cockeysville, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolTerry Leitch is a founder and former front-line quantitative finance executive with 25+ years designing and governing derivatives, hedging, and risk models across banks, insurers, and corporates. He now leads ai-focused ventures (aequum.ai) and ruxton.ai as Chief Data Scientist, applying machine learning to fraud detection, Swap Data Repository analytics, and aviation finance risk products used by Marsh, CFTC, and major banks. His background spans senior roles at AEGON, Genworth, Boeing and Bank of America, plus academic appointments teaching ERM and coding in R/Python at Columbia and Johns Hopkins. Terry combines deep applied math and financial engineering training with hands-on software and cloud implementations (AWS, Docker, parallel XGBoost), and holds a patent on an equity hedging process. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic builder who translates complex regulatory and market data into deployable models and licensed software used in real-world insurance and asset-transfer programs.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) at London Business SchoolM.S. Applied Math, M.S. Applied Math at Northwestern UniversityGraduate Certificate Financial Engineering, Graduate Certificate Financial Engineering at Columbia EngineeringA.B. Mathematics, A.B. Mathematics at University of Chicago
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Github Skills (41)
r-package10
cran10
r9
quantlib9
cpp9
c-library8
latex8
quantitative-finance8
gitbook8
keras7
bookdown7
rmarkdown7
jupyter-notebook7
rcpp6
parallel-processing6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
tleitch/handson-ml2
Mar 2020 - May 2021
A series of Jupyter notebooks that walk you through the fundamentals of Machine Learning and Deep Learning in Python using Scikit-Learn, Keras and TensorFlow 2.
Contributions:32 commits, 31 pushes in 1 year 1 month
pythondata-sciencedeep-learningjupyter-notebookfundamentals
tleitch/BDML
Mar 2021 - May 2021
Contributions:126 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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