Description

Full Time (10 Weeks)

Supervised by: Dennis O’Callahan, Tiago Silva

VIX Smoothing via Series-Level Filtering Algorithm

  • Developed the Series Level Filtering algorithm in Python to smooth highly granular VIX index levels for pricing options on the index
  • Participated in general algorithm design, analysis, and production deployment discussions with the Product Maintainence team

iBoxx Fixed Income Broad Based Index Test

  • Automated scripts to run the iBoxx Broad Based Index test, and generate live, on-demand reports, about the constitutents of the index and whether it satisfies various SEC index regulation requirements
  • Developed a self-designed package in Python to query the SEC EDGAR database to access key financials from 10K, 13Q, 10Q, and various other regulatory filings

Knowledge

  • Numerical Computing
  • Data Science
  • Simulation Modeling
  • Computational Finance
  • API Development
  • Software Engineering

Skills

  • Python
  • Excel
  • SQL