About

Amal Prasad is a highly skilled and accomplished Back End Developer at Apollo.io with a strong background in quantitative development and analysis. He is a recent graduate of Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi with a degree in Computer Science. Amal has gained valuable experience in the industry, having worked for top companies such as NK Securities and JPMorgan as a Quantitative Developer. At NK Securities, Amal was responsible for developing the strategy component of trading binaries in a low latency environment for NSE derivatives market. He deployed live trading code for Currency Derivatives Segment (CDS) on NSE, improving on speed and pnl. He also set up live backtest for NSE CDS to incorporate feedback for different hyperparameters in the strategy. Amal analyzed market micro-indicators to model short term price movements for placing mid-frequency orders. At JPMorgan, Amal built a dynamic distributed lag regression model with economy state to predict long-term hotel prices. He analyzed a short term correction model to incorporate COVID-19 effects into US revpar prediction of 2020-21. Amal presented long/short term revpar model to trading team and pushed the model into production for JPM dashboard. Amal is highly skilled in Backend development and has a strong knowledge of Python and Java. He is also experienced in working with hyperparameters. With a relevant experience of 1.69 years, Amal has a proven track record of delivering high-quality work on time and within budget. He is a self-motivated individual who is always eager to learn and grow in his career.