Worked on finding factors indicative of fund and stock performance and improving the speed with which such factors could be found and tested.● Rewrote key R methods to exhibit improved scaling, improving backtesting speed up to 8-fold● Parallelized and rewrote bottleneck operations in C++● Performed regression analysis on fund performance and market data● Participated in discussions on maximizing the tax efficiency and trading cost efficiency of the trading model

Wrote tools for monitoring ongoing health of production code as part of the first "Summer of Interns".● Created a web app to monitor the health of all active campaigns, logging errors and discrepancies in the database● Worked with other interns to populate Jenkins, a continuous integration tool, with unit tests for production code● Worked with the original code contributors to resolve exposed bugs