Amrita Nair

Master's

Business Administration

Business Analytics

Marketing

WORLDQUANT

Research Software Engineer

• • Managed SWEng (Chinese and Indian) teams and assigned development & QA tasks to team members via Jira according to their skill sets and task weight. Analyzed and created task reports on how team performance can be increased. Optimized team efficiency by 60%. • • Collaborated with team to plan, develop, debug and maintain software (using C++), that converts unstructured/structured financial Big Data into scalable data models, which is in-turn used by quantitative trading models. • • Develop qualitative analysis tools (Python and Shell scripting) that perform regression tests on data such as data coverage, statistical analysis, independence test, etc. • • Trained in Big Data management and analysis in Beijing, China. Subsequently worked in China. • • Delegated SWEng team requirements to other global teams(data, IT, etc) in Connecticut and Singapore. • • Point person of India Research Team for data management and simulator issues. Trained new researchers in India office on data manager software and simulator.