trunc.ai quant-style data science and data engineering applied outside the quant finance domain build your engineConsultant in the areas of data engineering, data quality, cost reduction and workflow automation:Specific expertise:Marketing buy optimization (reduced costs by $20MM)Building an alt-data data science platformOptimizing your data quality team - to protect and reduce load on data science and data engineering (unblocked key AI and data modeling project)Optimizing team size for data operations by building a platform to move most work to automation. (Reduced turnover on data science team)Integrated data, engineering, ops Supporting AI and data science to…Dramatically lower staff size. Develop new products20 years as proven data czar Specialized in algo trading and investing. [ alt data, MLOps, data error reduction, data science, prediction, modeling ]Domain: “quant” hedge funds, automated market making. Teams: Have led data efforts for twenty years including for quant hedge funds Two Sigma and AQR and for automated market maker IBKR. Coded engines, scripted automation, set up and ran data process, fixed problems, hired team. Daily detailed interaction with research and trading team. Alternative data: Coded a decent chunk of proof of concept of award-winning alternative data hedge fund research platform that was exceptionally profitable. Helped build team to extend and operate the platform. I learned concepts that form a general “handbook” to launch similar team. Quant research: Understanding of teams and techniques for comprehensive quant research to find patterns to drive algorithmic trading and profitable investing. Includes alt, fundamental and market data. Currently leading quant research team. Developed high-quality, lean research platform.Making data reliable: have worked extensively on error reduction, ID mapping, corporate actions, ingestion, validation and transformation.