jed@jedgore.com
Github: https://github.com/jed-gore
Professional Summary
Hedge fund portfolio manager / analyst turned Product leader and Python / R developer with a passion for data science in investing.
Skills
Development Technology
- Author and maintainer of public PyPI library “Candas”, a Python data science library: https://pypi.org/project/canalyst-candas/
- Python 6 years, R 3 years, SQL 8 years, PHP, PERL, VBA, C++.
- Machine learning classifiers in Python, time series models in Python and R, feature engineering, API design.
- Data visualization in Plotly Dash, R Shiny, Looker, Tableau.
Financial Analysis
- CFA charter holder.
- Portfolio manager, analyst covering domestic Market Structure, Banking, Financial Technology, and Asset Management sectors.
Experience
Vice President of Platform Product Development | Facteus | May 2022-Feb 2023
Team leader of platform development for a 12mm ARR fintech company.
- Leader of a five person engineering team developing a micro services based quantitative investment platform.
- Author and maintainer of Quantamodels, a data science module for OLS, models of KPI against credit card panel data.
- Maintainer of Quantamatics, public PyPI data science library.
- ETL pipelines, API development, and fundamental database development in SQL and Python, using Snowflake and Airflow.
Product Manager, Python and Data Science Workflows | Canalyst | February 2021-May 2022
Team leader of customer applications development for a 14mm ARR fintech company.
- Author and maintainer of “canalyst-candas”, a data science library in Python available on PyPI.
- Excel-based installation of Python library facilitating analytics for fundamental equity analysts using VBA, Heroku, Dash.
- Production implementation of data pipeline into AWS S3 bucket and EC2, JupyterHub implementation for clients.
- Internal reporting including: multivariate analysis to predict customer downloads, model quality reporting.
Senior Business Intelligence Analyst | Zoominfo | June 2020-January 2021
Team Leader, Data Science. Business Intelligence applications development for Zoominfo Technologies (NASDAQ: ZI).
- Machine Learning pipelines, BI applications development, liaison with stakeholders, Python / SQL / R coding.
- Customer churn prediction, Customer Credit Score, Likely to Pay, Propensity to Upsell.
- Implemented Agile Data Science scrum process in partnership with Product Management.
Product Developer, Contract Work | Reckoning Machines | January 2020-June 2020
Sole proprietorship Reckoning Machines.
- Customer support ticket tracking system for a pre-IPO technology company.
- NLP/NER/search pipelines and machine learning classifiers a private equity firm managing large volumes of unstructured PDF data.
- NLP/NER/search pipelines and text classifiers for a Wall Street technology startup.
- Tableau interface for Wall Street data provider of fundamental data for hedge funds.
Senior Data Scientist | Sentieo | January 2017-January 2020
Senior Data Scientist and Product Manager for the startup investment research platform Sentieo.
- Sentieo’s only US-based developer, production project implementations in both Python and R.
- NLP: production supervised machine learning text classifiers in Python.
- NLP: production rules-based document classification in R.
- Prototype products in Python (Plotly Dash and Django), and R Shiny.
- Product Manager for both Data Science and Financial Table Data Extraction teams.
- Evidence-based product research with hedge fund clients.
Managing Director | Alpenglow Capital | February 2015-October 2016
Senior analyst for a $250mm financial services focused fund.
- Industries under coverage: Financial Technology, Exchanges, Asset Management, Specialty Finance, Money Center/Trust Banks.
- Pair trading algorithms in Python using Quantopian.
Analyst | Millennium Partners | January 2013-April 2014
Senior analyst for a $250mm financial services focused fund.
Portfolio Manager | Diamondback Capital Management | February 2007-December 2012
Portfolio manager for a $250mm publicly traded financial services focused fund.
Analyst | SuNOVA Capital | September 2001-February 2007
Partner and Senior analyst for a $1bn financial services focused fund.
Partner | Whitehollow Partners | August 1999-September 2001
Partner in an $18mm financial services focused fund.
Analyst | JAM Partners | June 1997-August 1999
Analyst at a $25mm financial services focused fund.
Programmer | Montgomery Securities | 1995-1997
Developer in the Prime Brokerage department of a boutique investment bank building client report delivery systems using PERL, SQL, VBA, and C++.
Programmer | Chemical Bank | 1993 – 1995
Developer in the Private Client group of a commercial bank, building a cross sale referral tracking system using C++ and SQL.
Programmer | Johnson & Higgins | 1992 – 1993
Developer in the IT group of an insurance broker, building a sales tracking system using Lotus Notes.
Education | Awards
Bachelor of Arts, Political Economy, Mathematical Economics | 1992 | Princeton University
Patent Pending – Table Extraction software application number 17/837526
Chartered Financial Analyst | 2001