Joyanta Raksmith
I have worked for startups in technology, and recently in finance (hedge funds), Looking into working with startups.
| Headline: | Startup Member |
| Work status: | Living The Dream |
| Website: | http://www.wisefer.com |
| Industries: | Cleantech, Computing, Financial, Information Technology, Media, Mobile |
| Skills: | C/C++, HTML / CSS, Languages and Platforms, SQL, Web Development |
| Location: | London |
| Visas: | UK, EU |
| Interested in: | Advising startups, Brainstorming, Consulting opportunities, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding experts, Finding mentors, Finding team mates, Helping friends, Joining a startup, Meeting new people, Mentoring, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Providing services to startups, Recruiting for my startup |
| Tags: | international money transfer, remittance |
| Schools: | Imperial College London, London School of Economics and Political Science, University of Leeds |
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | Trafelet Delta Funds, London |
| Position: | Trading System Engineer |
| Time period: | October 2007 - December 2008 |
| Description: | Main responsibilities:
• Liaising with New York division technologists to propose firm-wide solutions (Risk, Portfolio Management Systems, Portals) and their subsequent design, development, deployment and London division specific testing. • Greenfield Trading Signal Generator design, development and support. • Managing expectations for the London traders and communicate their requests to remote developers and IT managers in New York. • First line support for London division’s trading related applications. Achievements: • Trading Signal generator: designed and developed a desktop application which generated real time trading signals (using C#/SQL Server/Bloomberg API) based on historical and real time last prices, 90 Day Volatility, long/short, bet sizes on equity positions. With the user interface, users also have ability to override these signals with actual trade prices, alter long/short positions, create & modify portfolios and download of historical prices. The system also calculated real time unrealised P/L at stock and portfolio level. • Security Categorisation Tool: designed, developed and supported a desktop application (in C# / SQL Server) which allowed traders to associate bespoke thematic risk category to stock positions and produce exposure reports. • Portfolio Management System development: added code base (in C#) for the Portfolio Exposure calculations tab; end of day report generation code; historical trade report generation. • Designed and developed a Correlation calculator in C# for finding correlations between basket of stock and their hedges. |
| Employer: | Quantiva Capital Limited, London |
| Position: | Technologist |
| Time period: | November 2006 - October 2007 |
| Description: | Main responsibilities:
• Front office: Fully responsible for ongoing development of Quantiva's black-box model for trading (signal generation based on long/short historical prices, volumes, trend, local maxima/minima of prices and momentum rules); development of P/L system. • Back office: responsible for the ongoing development and use of in-house NAV calculator and reconciliation system. • Liaising with traders, brokers and fund administrators to do reconciliation (daily and month end) and signing off NAV. • First line tech support for traders; working with external IT infrastructure support personnel. Achievements: • Re-architecting, debugging and verifying of Quantiva Capital's black box trading signal generator named PARIS (desktop application written in C#, MySQL, Crystal Reports); I decoupled signal generation code and user interface code base, thereafter I verified the signal generation algorithm and resolved inconsistent buy / sell signals. I have also extended the black box simulation with new rules of exiting trades. Also implemented moving averages and fed that in the price graphs. I put stock split logic into PARIS. • Evolved PARIS into a High Octane strategy, and ran it in parallel with normal signal generator. • Re-engineered the database schema to cater for tracking of futures (price and volume) and options in PARIS, Position Monitor tool and the back office NAV system. • In Position Monitor tool, I have also tracked dividend adjusted returns on stocks. • I have extended the C# / MySQL desktop reconciliation system for futures and options; made the reconciliation flexible such that it could be done between dates. • Done month-end reconciliation with operations personnel and the fund administrator. |
| Employer: | QuantMetrics Capital Management, London |
| Position: | Technologist |
| Time period: | March 2005 - September 2006 |
| Description: | Main responsibilities:
• Responsible for managing day to day fund’s operations and build relationships with middle offices, execution brokers, clearing brokers and with technology/service vendors to streamline processes. Also managing operations personnel. • Fully responsible for architecting and development of back office reconciliation and front office system development. • Trader support - trading system support, allocation of trades, dealing with trade breaks (continual engagement with execution/clearing brokers), automating spread sheets, IT infrastructure support, dealing with operational requests from investors and Fund of Funds. Achievements: • Developed a desktop C#/SQL Server reconciliation system (with multi broker support) for doing position and activity reconciliation for futures and equities. The system also connected to the Trader back office system using ADO.NET. The system allowed for historical reconciliation between dates and allowed searching functionality on historical trades. • Developed Trade Allocation software which instructs an execution broker where to give up / allocate trades. • Developed C# / SQL Server desktop application to monitor allocated positions in the funds and managed accounts; this was especially useful to catch whether any of the traders were doing wrong future contracts by mistake. • Developed a database system for storing tick data and presented traders with C# GUI to effectively query to pull data from the data set. |
| Employer: | Seventh Wave Systems, London |
| Position: | Software Engineer |
| Time period: | March 2003 - December 2004 |
| Description: | Main responsibilities:
• Lead developer for server side development. • Deployment and support at clients’ infrastructure. • Support the hosted services to clients. • First line of support for users requests. Achievements: • GUI design and implementation (from specification to implementation) of the flagship Equity Research Distribution product named ReachIS using WinForms, event mechanism, MVC Pattern and Win32 programming. • Developed parser for RIXML and transforming it at run-time using XSL style sheets. • Prototyped ReachIS help in .NET HTML Help and developed the client’s cache manger. • Played an active role in architectural design of the server and, under the guidance of the CTO, I was in a team of two who carried out design and implementation of the server in C#, involving multithreading, database design, ADO.NET, SQL (Oracle 9i). • Developed algorithms to fix broken RIXML documents. • Co-developed with CTO SASL Digest MD5 for user authentication and implemented tunnelling of the XMPP protocol through HTTP 1.0. |
EDUCATION
| University: | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| Time period: | 2001 - 2002 |
| Degree: | Operational Research , MSc |
| University: | University of Leeds |
| Time period: | 2000 - 2001 |
| Degree: | Computing, MSc |
| University: | Imperial College London |
| Time period: | 1997 - 2000 |
| Degree: | Computing, BEng |
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