Richard Mashood Expert in HFT | Proficient in Python/AI/C++ | Project

TK Elevator Data Pipeline Engineer

TK Elevator

Dec 2024 - Dec 2025 (1 year 1 month)

• Built DataGaps DQA pipelines for CDC migrations – implementing Level 3 Metric Drift (Chi-square, KS, Levene, JS divergence) and Level 4 Contextual Interpretation for business-aware anomaly detection. • Supported Salesforce Cloud migration QA and CDC verification across Azure Data Factory and Databricks environments. • Worked on QA and prompt optimization for LangChain, LangGraph, and OpenAI MCP systems, including tracing and multi-agent workflows. • Tested integrations with Pinecone, Qdrant, and Chroma vector DBs.

Senior KDB+ Python AI Developer

Syneos Health

Sep 2023 - Apr 2024 (8 months)

• Worked on the clinical side of the business. • Worked on using KDB+ and python in the Azure AI ML pipelines. Used SQL Databricks, Spark SQL and Azure Devops

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IT Project Manager

Kingdon Capital Management

May 2022 - Mar 2023 (11 months)

Kingdom Capital is a strategic advisor, partner, investor, and community builder within the Blockchain industry. • Kingdom Capital is a strategic advisor, partner and investor within the Blockchain industry. • Development of smart contracts and security audit. • The microservices architecture used Fireblocks Digital Asset Custody, Settlement, and Intel SGX Enclaves. • Created the infrastructure to execute and monitor R&D strategies. Included interface against the account system. • Non-permanent loss coverage for Pancake swap v2 and v3 • Developed the CICD toolchain to use AWS secrets.

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Senior Quant Developer and Quantitative Architect Engineer

GDA

Sep 2021 - Oct 2022 (1 year 2 months)

GDA Fund is a 6 years-old leading crypto research, trading & technology firm out of Dubai/Australia. • Designed and developed, a highly scalable open-source HFT middleware and quant research platform. • Architected the Crypto L3 Data initiative • Used low-level sockets to connect to crypto content delivery networks

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Consultant / Algorithmic Trading

Insch Kintore Limited

Apr 2019 - May 2021 (2 years 2 months)

• Using VBA, PHP and Python • Helped Launch of the award-winning Insch Kintore strategy is a fully disciplined and entirely systematic trading program in Python that trades gold (as a currency) versus G7 currencies. • This best-in-class strategy won the 2016 EuroHedge Award for Best Managed Futures Performance under $500m, the 2017 CTA Intelligence Award for Long Term Performance Under $500m and the 2017 HFR Review Best Managed Futures/CTA Award

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Experienced Senior Consultant

HFT consultancy

Apr 2018 - Jul 2024 (6 years 4 months)

• Leveraging over two decades of in-depth experience in Technology and High-Frequency Trading (HFT), I've had the privilege to serve premier institutions. • As a consultant, I offer an expansive array of technical services to a diverse clientele encompassing FinTech startups, high-net-worth traders, Investment Banks, Market Makers.

Front Office Algorithmic Trading

Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Sep 2012 - Sep 2014 (2 years 1 month)

• Worked on LCR and Basel 2 in Liquidity Risk, using VBA, Rules Engines, Python, Java, C# and C++ • Cross Asset - Algorithmic Trading Strategies (HFT Market Making, Order Book Imbalance Short Term Alpha) • Market Making used Stochastic Control Theory Dynamic Programing • In Terms of High-Performance Computing, we used the Intel Xeon Phi Knights Landing • Built Trading Algos that used Reinforcement Learning (Dyna-Q Algorithm)

Market Risk Analyst / Developer

HSBC

Dec 2010 - Dec 2011 (1 year 1 month)

• Wrote Business and Technical Documents for Change the Bank • Designed built Cross Asset, Market Risk, Data Warehouse using VBA, Python, MDX, Java, C#, and C++ • Built C++ socket code that Processed Trading Desks PnL Vectors • Built C++ VaR Engines

Front office Analyst / Developer

Credit Suisse

Dec 2009 - Dec 2010 (1 year 1 month)

• Front Office, worked on Binomial Option Pricing Engines in VBA, C++ and C# .net • Built a Market Risk Limit Monitoring process that used Finite State Machines to monitor the limits breaks and approvals in the business.

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Developer consultant

FTSE Russell, An LSEG Business

Dec 2008 - Dec 2009 (1 year 1 month)

(Was the FTSE when I worked there) Worked on a major project Launching the new United Arab Emirates Index Built the process in VBA, Transact SQL and C# I Implemented the Disaster Recovery process.

Lead Developer

BNY Mellon

Jul 2006 - Nov 2008 (2 years 5 months)

Lead Front office Developer • Managed team of 4 developers • Built and maintained Trading/Risk systems in VBA, C++ and C#

Quantitative Programmer

Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein

Mar 2003 - Jun 2006 (3 years 4 months)

• Worked in a large team developers. • Worked on large projects which involved Sockets Programming, Risks Systems, Trading Systems Worked in VBA, C++ MFC, Linux • Worked in competitor analytics

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