Sonesh P.

MTS @ Etched

Austin, Texas, United States

About

Experience

  • Member of Technical Staff, Architecture at Etched
    May 2026 - Present · 3 mos

    Performance Modeling

  • Quantitative Analyst at Gunvor Group
    Aug 2024 - Apr 2026 · 1 yr 9 mos

    Cross Barrels Desk

  • Trading Analyst at Virtu Financial
    Jul 2022 - Oct 2023 · 1 yr 4 mos

  • Quantitative Research Intern at Quantlab Group
    Apr 2021 - Aug 2021 · 5 mos

    - Built tool in C++ for comparing multiple timeseries of depth level limit order book data - Created live dashboard to monitor and visualize core metrics, top level differences, and abnormal discrepancies - Applied data science techniques to identity core heuristics that signaled discrepancies between two datasets - Implemented parallelized, space optimized version of a Dynamic Time Warping based comparison algorithm in CUDA

  • ADAR1 Capital Management (2 yrs 1 mo)
    • Quantitative Researcher (Part-Time)
      Aug 2019 - Jun 2021 · 1 yr 11 mos

      - Developed multi-factor LS model for predicting temporal anomalies: considered rebalancing flows, dealer delta hedging,and time series analysis to build IN strategy - Validated new signals through feature-tailored statistical testing: utilized HAC standard errors due to autocorrelation and heteroskedasticity in time-series data, used difference-in-difference regression to control for seasonal effects - Dynamically set portfolio weights and leverage in real time based on signal strength, exponentially weighted covariance, and market volatility - Incorporated transaction costs and slippage in solving multi-period optimization problems - Worked with Polygon WebSocket, IB RESTful, and Bloomberg APIs to manage live data and trading

    • Quantitative Development Intern
      Jun 2019 - Aug 2019 · 3 mos

      - Designed and programmed equity back-testing platform, modeling slippage and transaction costs - Created strategy for trading International Equities based on inter-market and intra-market relationships - Backtest Sharpe of 5.3, live Sharpe of 3.4, annualized returns 30%+ amongst weak international performance