The company I co-founded: Prophet Predictive Modeling

Founding: With my basis in software and data science, I partnered with a life-long friend and avid investor to develop a suite of tools to help him trade securities. We worked side by side to statistically test and implement his trading strategies and then to develop new ones based on unique data streams and methods. The project quickly began to grow and soon I was managing two other developers creating a fully autonomous securities trading system.

Accomplishments:

• Managed investor funds, making 100% profit in one year

• Received several investments in order to work on the project full time for several months

• Won several startup competitions

• Gave pitches to numerous investors

My roles: System architect, software developer, meeting with potential investors, hiring developers, networking, and public speaking.

The system my team and I created: Collects data from both standard and non-standard sources, cleans and stores this data. It analyses thousands of securities real time, generating trade recommendations and predictions. These recommendations can be used to autonomously trade different funds independently based on desired risk levels, investor preferences, and other factors. The entire system involves numerous components, written in C, R, MATLAB, Python, MySQL, and more. We also created web interfaces for us to monitor and maintain the program along with mechanisms to automatically archive data and update statistical models.

Current Status: Our team is currently disbursed to work in other fields. My co-founder Vazul Hites is growing another startup in the field of automation. Some of our developers have moved onto other companies and some are pursuing higher degrees. The technology we developed continues to be used personally by those who worked on it.