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Rohan Mahimker
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Co-Founder and Co-CEO
Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
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Jobs
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Co-Founder and Co-CEOProdigy EducationJun 2011 - Current (15 years 5 months)- Leading a team of 300+ people at the fastest growing educational startup in Canada
- Helping millions of students to LOVE learning math- HTrading AssociateHeaps CapitalAug 2009 - Dec 2009 (5 months)- Initiated and developed an intelligent back-testing framework for quantitative equity trading.
- Leveraged excel to build pivot tables and charts for refining strategies, increasing profitability and placing intelligent stop-losses.
- Implemented an algorithmic trading strategy from formulation to market deployment in timeframe of 4 months.
- Ranked "Outstanding" by employer due to unprecedented initiative and work ethic. - SPresident and CEOSynergia Investment GroupJun 2009 - Apr 2011 (1 year 11 months)- Founded and actively managed a team of 6 people focused on developing a statistical algorithmic trading firm.
- Initiated, tested, and refined technical strategies for Canadian and U.S. equities and Forex.
- Developed position sizing and risk management models for intra-position, intra-strategy and long-short hedging.
- Won 2nd place in a competition held by the Center for Business, Technology and Entrepreneurship. - Technical Trading AssociateTDDec 2008 - Apr 2009 (5 months)- Implemented a trending strategy for market making on the Alpha exchange, that effectively detects trends in individual equities and intelligently enters and exits positions.
- Enhanced profitability, functionality and efficiency of three specialized inter-exchange arbitrage strategies for equities listed on Canadian and U.S. exchanges.
- Developed an intelligent system for handling odd-lot orders for symbols listed on Alpha to monitor and liquidate odd-lot positions, resulting in enormous time-savings for traders.
- Aided traders to monitor, reconcile and hedge FX risk associated with inter-exchange arbitrage - Fixed Income Options Trading InternBarclays Investment BankMay 2008 - Aug 2008 (4 months)- Aided traders to analyze and manage billions of dollars of Delta, Gamma, and Vega positions for an array of fixed income derivatives, including swaps, swaptions and caps/floors
- Diagnosed implied and realized volatility levels of CPI inflation caps and proposed trading strategies to Barclays' premier customers, including several affluent hedge funds
- Instigated an in-depth study and improved the accuracy of the desk's DVaR by several hundred thousand dollars a day - GEngineering Co-Op StudentGoodrich CorporationAug 2007 - Dec 2007 (5 months)
- Mechanical Engineering AssistantWoodbridgeJan 2007 - Apr 2007 (4 months)
Education
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- Bachelor of Applied Science, Mechatronics EngineeringUniversity of WaterlooJan 2006 - Dec 2011 (6 years)• Received the President's Scholarship of Distinction and an Engineering Entrance Scholarship
• Honored with a Research Award for advances in micro-scale Radio Frequency transmission
• Ranked 3rd in Mechatronics Engineering, out of over 100 of Waterloo's brightest engineering students - International BaccalaureateTurner Fenton Secondary SchoolJan 2002 - Dec 2006 (5 years)• International Baccalaureate Program – 96.5% average; 100% in Calculus, Data Management, Algebra & Geometry
Projects (professional or personal)
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- EEmotion Sensing Wrist BandResponsibilities:
• Worked as a team member in the project
• Developed code for the Bluetooth enabled Micro controller
• Simulation and analysis of embedded code
• Testing and troubleshooting the hardware with software