Alistair Ozdemir

Founder | Trading Systems Architect | Risk, Execution & System Design | Python, Go

Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia

About

My work focuses on the design, validation, and engineering of quantitative trading systems used in real market environments. I build and evaluate systematic trading frameworks where strategy logic, execution structure, and risk architecture must work together under real market conditions. Through my EU-based quantitative trading company, I design algorithmic trading system architectures across futures, ETFs, and FX markets. My work sits between research and engineering: transforming strategies that look good in backtests into systems that can realistically survive live trading. I focus particularly on the structural failure points of trading systems. Many strategies fail not because the idea is wrong, but because execution assumptions, volatility regimes, slippage, or risk logic break once exposed to real markets. My work centers on identifying these weaknesses and restructuring systems into robust, production-oriented frameworks. Technically, I build and test trading infrastructure using Python-based research and analytics tools, including portfolio analytics dashboards, system validation frameworks, and backtest diagnostics used to evaluate execution realism and long-term strategy robustness. My work typically involves: • Algorithmic trading system architecture • Strategy validation and backtest realism diagnostics • Execution logic and risk structure design • Portfolio analytics and trading system infrastructure I collaborate selectively with traders, funds, and fintech builders who prioritize system correctness, robustness, and long-term survivability over short-term backtest optics.

Experience

  • Founder & Quant Trading Infrastructure Architect at Alistair Beaumont
    Oct 2024 - Present · 1 yr 9 mos

    • Designed systematic trading decision frameworks focused on risk structure & regime behavior • Built validation workflow: backtest audit - execution realism - drawdown decomposition • Developed portfolio-level monitoring for liquidity/spread/volatility shocks • Advisory: de-risking strategies before live deployment

  • Finance Department at Groupe Atlantic
    Oct 2023 - Nov 2023 · 2 mos

    A global heating/cooling systems manufacturing company based in France. / Fransa merkezli, global bir ısıtma-soğutma sistemleri üretim şirketi.

  • Portfolio Management at Ata Portföy Yönetimi
    Jul 2023 - Aug 2023 · 2 mos

  • Aegean Region Branch (Corporate Finance) at Akbank
    Jul 2022 - Jul 2022 · 1 mo

    Ege Bolge Subesi - Kurumsal Finansman

  • Aegean Region Branch (Securtities) at Garanti BBVA Securities
    Jun 2022 - Jul 2022 · 2 mos

    Ege Bolge Subesi - Yatirim Departmani