Etienne de Boursetty
Verified Expert in Engineering
Financial Modeling Developer
Etienne has been working in the financial industry for 10 years, building models and market analysis tools for traders at world class financial institutions and hedge funds. Working primarily in C#, he has designed and developed large scale data analysis platforms that allowed business-focused team members to quickly crunch vast quantities of numbers efficiently.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
JetBrains, Visual Studio, C#, Windows
The most amazing...
...thing I've designed is a 'fluent' timeseries analysis library for financial mathematicians as well as a generic OLAP cube that manipulates objects.
Work Experience
Director of Modeling and Technology
Element Capital Management
- Designed and developed a custom language and an API for multi-dimensional time-series analysis in C#.
- Designed and developed an in-memory time-series datastore for quick access to financial models with indices and asynchronous replication.
- Built the infrastructure used to price the firm’s position and to calculate risks, scenarios, and VaR.
- Wrote various financial models to price trades including FX vanilla options, FX exotic options, and equity index options.
- Organized code structure and managed code workflow for the entire technology team.
- Designed and developed a plugin framework to allow quick delivery of financial models as well as code separation between quantitative developers and infrastructure developers.
- Participated in the development of various tools used by traders including a multi-asset trade pricer, a tool for plotting/analyzing time series, various trade blotters, tools to help with execution, and a PnL attribution tool.
Business Analyst
Credit Agricole
- Served as point of contact between traders, quants, and developers.
- Designed a way to simulate the aging of an investment portfolio to inform traders of potential future risks.
- Wrote specs for the development of commodity index trading.
Quantitative Developer
Credit Suisse
- Developed the commodity index risk management platform in Excel/C#.
- Developed tools to calibrate and monitor interest rate correlations and volatilities.
- Served as a point of contact between quants, traders, and technologists to integrate financial models into calculators and presentation layers.
Video Compression Intern
France Telecom
- Worked on the H.264 compression standard: Designed and implemented a compression algorithm based on edge recognition in C.
- Implemented an alternative to block filtering using the modified discrete cosine transform (MDCT).
- Analyzed and presented results using Microsoft Excel.
Experience
Data Analytics Platform
Skills
Languages
C#, SQL, JavaScript, C, Python, Java, F#
Frameworks
.NET, NUnit
Libraries/APIs
Bloomberg API, Protobuf, Node.js, Quandl API, ZeroMQ
Tools
Excel-DNA, ReSharper, Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft Excel, Visual Studio, JetBrains, Jenkins, RabbitMQ
Paradigms
OLAP, Real-time Systems, Concurrent Programming, Agile Software Development
Other
Algorithms, Data Structures, COM, API Design, Numerical Methods, Financial Modeling, Software Development, Quantitative Calculus, Algorithmic Trading, H.264, Unix Shell Scripting
Storage
MySQL, MongoDB
Platforms
Windows
Education
M.Sc. Degree in Computer Science/Signal Processing
Ecole Superieure Electricite - France
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