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Colan Walsh

Freelance Data Scientist
United KingdomToptal Member Since March 3, 2020

Colan is an experienced senior financial quantitative developer and researcher with experience across various asset classes and trading venues. He has a multidisciplinary background, having worked in quant development, quant research, and derivatives trading for multiple investment banks and hedge funds. Colan has built and managed teams of quant researchers from the ground up on numerous occasions.

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Karim Kacper Alaa El-Din

Freelance Data Scientist
United KingdomToptal Member Since August 1, 2022

Karim is a PhD candidate at the University of Oxford with a master's degree in physics from Imperial College London. Aside from his experience in research environments, Karim has worked as the CTO of a green tech app startup, where he combined his expertise in software development, data science, and interdisciplinary work to deliver a fully fleshed-out product. Karim is looking to apply his mathematical, analytical, and software development skills to projects with a real-world impact.

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Gonzalo Hirsch

Freelance Data Scientist
United KingdomToptal Member Since February 1, 2021

Gonzalo is an efficient and reliable full-stack developer who has worked with multiple tech stacks, such as AWS, to engineer the best solutions. In addition to winning innovation contests, Gonzalo is passionate about taking on projects that impact the world, being inspired by and inspiring others, and taking on new challenges. He has participated in many Java-based projects where he designed and implemented systems architecture, such as a digital payments API using AWS.

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Artem Matiash

Freelance Data Scientist
United KingdomToptal Member Since February 10, 2022

Artem is a senior quantitative researcher with over six years of commercial experience researching and implementing trading algorithms for quantitative hedge funds and prop shops. He specializes in the Python programming language, including scripts, packages, pipelines, and GUIs, and has statistics knowledge, such as machine learning and data science. Artem has a deep understanding of financial markets, stocks, ETFs, futures, options, crypto, and currencies.

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Carlos Miguel Pereira

Freelance Data Scientist
United KingdomToptal Member Since October 15, 2021

Carlos has a solid track record in designing and implementing data-driven solutions, including advanced predictive modeling and optimization algorithms. His academic and professional background also brought him extensive knowledge of software development, data engineering, data visualization, and project management skills. Besides having a Ph.D., Carlos has done two postgraduate courses, one general management program, and a vast number of certifications and technical courses.

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Sergei Markochev

Freelance Data Scientist
United KingdomToptal Member Since May 24, 2021

Sergei is a lead data scientist with over 15 years of extensive experience. He has experience in applied modeling and developing highly complex enterprise products. He also has successfully managed data science teams and contributed as a senior data scientist and solutions architect. Sergei has published six academic papers and one international patent in his field and was recently the winner of a data science competition.

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Ioannis Melas

Freelance Data Scientist
United KingdomToptal Member Since March 30, 2021

Ioannis is a data scientist with expertise in prototyping, developing, and deploying data science and ML workflows that best leverage business data. This includes exploratory analysis such as dimensionality reduction, clustering, feature extraction, model fit/parameter estimation, and supervised analysis such as classification and regression. Ioannis is an expert in structured and unstructured data (NLP). Some of his notable clients include the U.S. Food & Drug Administration and AstraZeneca.

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John Lazar

Freelance Data Scientist
United KingdomToptal Member Since December 30, 2019

John is a senior quant developer and AI developer who's worked the full development lifecycle of various applications. He's proficient in several languages—C++, C#, Java, Python, and R, to name a few—across Windows and Linux. The types of projects where John excels are advising and implementing in-house cloud distributions of heavy-load operations combined with continuous integration and deployment (Linux, DevOps packages).

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Anne Charlotte Leysen

Freelance Data Scientist
United KingdomToptal Member Since February 3, 2020

Charlotte is an experienced professional in data science and analytics. She has worked in various industries, including finance, digital marketing, online marketplaces, and mental health. She has co-founded two startups, where her primary role focused on development, optimization, and business intelligence. Charlotte has a strong work ethic and strives for efficiency, delivering a high standard of work that brings top results.

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Alexandr Proskurin

Freelance Data Scientist
United KingdomToptal Member Since May 11, 2021

Alexandr is an AI developer and entrepreneur who co-founded two companies. He specializes in financial machine learning techniques applied in investment management and algorithmic trading research. His expertise includes researching and implementing long-only and intraday long/short and statistical arbitrage algorithms using supervised and unsupervised algorithms. Alexandr developed MlFinLab, a Python package for financial machine learning research used by portfolio managers and traders.

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Diego Ignacio Lopez

Freelance Data Scientist
United KingdomToptal Member Since January 28, 2022

Diego is a specialist machine learning developer who is currently conducting academic research on advanced, data-driven reduced-order modeling techniques. His experience includes working with Fortune 500 companies in the aerospace industry, developing models for statistical learning, optimization, uncertainty quantification, and characterization of complex systems.

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