Wouter Van Amstel
Trader at Group One Trading
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWouter Van Amstel is a data scientist and derivatives trader with 11+ years blending quantitative finance and machine learning across trading desks and product teams. He has deep, hands-on experience in volatility arbitrage, dispersion and relative value trading alongside building scalable NLP and ML systems using Spark/MapReduce and databases like PostgreSQL, MongoDB, ElasticSearch and Cassandra. Wouter has led data science teams to productionize language-driven models in radiology and developed novel NLP methodologies that retained major enterprise clients. Technically fluent in Python, C/C++ and R, he pairs model research with production engineering—implementing test-driven code and collaborating closely with product and UX. Based in San Francisco, he brings engineering discipline from geotechnical and mining degrees to both market microstructure problems and large-scale unstructured data. An uncommon strength is his ability to translate cross-disciplinary insights (trading intuition, NLP, and systems engineering) into robust, revenue-driving solutions.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Geotechnical Engineering, MS, Geotechnical Engineering at University of California, BerkeleyMS, Mining & Petroleum Engineering, MS, Mining & Petroleum Engineering at Delft University of Technology
Dutch, French, German
Github Skills (3)
git8
github8
word2vec1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
wvanamstel/equity
Sep 2015 - May 2016
Contributions:107 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
wvanamstel/snakes
Jun 2023 - Jul 2025
Contributions:2 PRs, 9 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 2 months
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