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CV Highlights

Work Experience

Technical Data Analyst, Facebook (>3 years)
  • In my current role I focus on researching vulnerabilities and risks across ads products in Facebook.
    Previously I have worked to scale Commerce Operations on products like Instagram Shopping, Facebook Shops & Marketplace.
  • Both roles involved global cross functional collaboration, analytics & data engineering, process design along with teaching and mentoring.
  • Read a more detailed overview of my work in Facebook here
Quantitative Researcher, LayerIV (<1 Year)
  • Research start up focusing on Pharmaceutical R&D. I helped to shape the direction of the company from seed (4th Employee) to Series A.
  • Built a back testing infrastructure to test hypothesis about movements in financial markets and performance attribution to strategies relevant to pharmaceutical clients.
  • Researched SEC filings using natural language processing and sentiment analysis to understand if there was any alpha or premium over the market for the firm's portfolios
Data Quality Specialist, Irish Life Investment Managers (~ 2 Years)
  • Worked to build and improve data infrastructure and changed how the company used data to make decisions
  • Monitored market data feeds including security prices, benchmarks, and currency data
  • Contributed to the ongoing improvement and automation effort by Data Quality (DQ) with various projects delivering from ideation to implementation, to speed up and improve both the DQ work flow and DQ production
  • Responsible for coordinating the operational due diligence for new externally managed investment funds

Education

MSc Computing & Data Analytics, Dublin City University
  • Research Title: Building an Artificial Intelligence System to Detect Human Faces in Video and Predict Video Memorability. read it here
BA Economics & Finance, Maynooth University
  • Graduated with First Class Honours & top 1% of class.
  • Covered Economics cirriculum along with Econometrics, Derivatives Options & Portfolio Optmisation
Data Streaming Nanodegree, Udacity
  • Real time event driven data processing using Apache Spark, Kafka, Spark Streaming, and Kafka Streaming. Github repo here
Charter Financial Analyst Institute —
  • Among the 43% of candidates to pass level 1 in '17

Technical Skills & Stats

Technical Skills

    Advanced:
  • Python including Object-oriented programming common analytics libraries pandas, numpy, stats etc
  • SQL with experience in MySQL, Hive, Presto & multiple other *QL variants.
  • Dataswarm (batch processding) & Kafka (Streams) for Data Engineering
  • Visualisation tools such as Tableau & Python libraries including Plotly, Matplotlib and Seaborn
  • Familiarity with building computer vision applications with image and video processing.
  • Experience in setting up ML models to make and monitor predictions in production
  • Intermediate:
  • Familiarity with Linux/CLI and Git
  • Django for personal projects and production code for Instagram Lite
  • Pytorch & Tensor Flow in Academic Research

Stats & Experimentation

    Experienced in:
  • Experimental Design in Online Systems
  • Causal inference
  • Sampling Methodologies
  • Quantitative Risk Measurement
  • Hypothesis testing

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