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Akshat Mittal

Akshat Mittal has a Master's degree in Operations Research from Columbia University and a Bachelor's degree in Electronics and Communication from Manipal University in India. He has worked in quantitative finance roles at several firms including Betterment, Amida Capital Management, and Laifer Capital, where he developed financial models, conducted data analysis, and performed equity research. His skills include programming languages such as Excel, VBA, MATLAB, SQL, C++, R, and Python.

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Akshat Mittal

Akshat Mittal has a Master's degree in Operations Research from Columbia University and a Bachelor's degree in Electronics and Communication from Manipal University in India. He has worked in quantitative finance roles at several firms including Betterment, Amida Capital Management, and Laifer Capital, where he developed financial models, conducted data analysis, and performed equity research. His skills include programming languages such as Excel, VBA, MATLAB, SQL, C++, R, and Python.

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AKSHAT MITTAL

3151 Broadway, Apt 5B, New York NY 10027 +1 (718) 564-0431 [email protected]

EDUCATION
Columbia University New York NY Master of Science in Operations Research, Financial Engineering Concentration GPA: 3.8/4.0 Sep 2011 Dec 2012 Coursework: Asset Management; Quantitative Risk Management; Computational Finance; Empirical Finance; Algorithmic Trading; Capital Markets & Investments; Simulation; Foundations of Financial Engineering; Stochastic Models; Deterministic Models. Project Work: Utilized the Local Volatility Model as a tool to estimate future real volatility for volatility trading. Applied real pricing model to observe money-making opportunities such as pinning, hard-to borrows, takeovers, and earnings events. Manipal University, Manipal Institute of Technology Bachelor of Engineering, Electronics and Communication GPA: 9.1/10.0 Karnataka, India Aug 2005 May 2009

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Betterment New York NY Financial Analyst Intern Jul 2012 Dec 2012 Designed and build financial models to implement investment projections, comparisons, financial advice & strategic asset allocation. Examined portfolio analytics to implement real-time feedback and strategic investment decisions on customer holdings and behavior using Excel, VBA and MATLAB. Extracted and transformed data for analytics and perform scenario testing to evaluate historical portfolio performance. Devised and implemented the social security benefit and retirement income calculator. Researched superiority of passive investing strategy over the active investing strategy with focus on portfolio decisions, investor behavior and index diversification utilizing the CRSP database and programming in SQL and Python. Amida Capital Management New York NY Quantitative Developer Jun 2012 Sep 2012 Designed and developed automated tools in VBA for performance evaluation of a convertible arbitrage hedge fund. Collaborated with trading desk and utilized Bloomberg APIs for real-time data to implement risk analytics including stress tests, gamma profile, carry on convertibles, currency & margin exposure that provide robust and efficient models to measure performance. Laifer Capital New York NY Equity Analyst Intern May 2012 Aug 2012 Analyzed long-term equity investment opportunities by conducting financial analysis using technical and fundamental valuation, and assessing the competitive position of a company to generate research reports for value-oriented hedge fund. Futures First Info Services Private Limited Jaipur, India Derivatives Trader Nov 2010 - Jun 2011 Traded Intraday STIR Euribor Futures and Fixed Income Schatz Derivatives on international exchanges LIFFE and EUREX. Applied different trading strategies such as butterfly, calendar, and intra/inter-contract spreads on accounts of movement across various asset classes and interest rate expectations, with consideration to risk minimization. Performed analysis by understanding the impact of macroeconomic factors and global economic events on daily market movements. Analyzed technical indicators, historical price movements and trends in the short-term and the long-term by utilizing Bloomberg and Reuters to facilitate on-the-spot decision-making. Nokia Siemens Networks India Private Limited, R&D Center Bangalore, India Software Engineer Jul 2009 - Sep 2010 Designed high availability solutions in networking domain for carrier grade Linux based platform used by telecom service providers. Conceptualized and implemented the design code to introduce redundancy and high availability using C++ and performed functional and module tests using shell scripting. Developed, maintained and packaged hardware for Solaris based telecommunication service platform. Applied the agile software development model and scrum practices.

SKILLS
Programming Teaching Assistant MS Office Suite, Excel, VBA, MATLAB, SQL, C++, R, Python, Linux shell scripting. Capital Markets & Investments, Columbia Business School Jan 2012 May 2012 Assisted MBA students in understanding Fixed Income, Equities and options valuation, portfolio optimization, investment performance evaluation and behavioral finance through discussions, reviews and assignments. National Stock Exchange of India Certified Market Professional NCFM Level-1, in modules on financial markets, currency derivatives, options trading strategies, investment analysis and portfolio management.

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