Salman Haider

Intraday Power Trader

Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

About

Experience

  • Intraday Power Trader at Vattenfall
    Mar 2026 - Present · 5 mos

  • E.ON (Full-time · 4 yrs 9 mos)
    • Trading and Operations - Short Term Energy Trading
      Jan 2023 - Feb 2026 · 3 yrs 2 mos

      - Operational ownership of short-term trading systems (portfolio management system, auto-trader etc) - Business owner of intraday algorithmic trading strategies - Interface between IT developers, and back-office teams translating trading needs into technical implementations and ensuring system stability under market pressure. - Shift trading in the intraday and day-ahead power markets. - Driving new business initiatives such as flex asset and battery trading — from process definition to full operational readiness - Relationship management with external trading partners. - Oversee short-term trading P&L, curtailment impacts, and Power BI reporting logic, ensuring accuracy and timely reflection of new business use cases. - Data owner for all short-term trading data, coordinate data structure and storage improvements with developers.

    • Graduate Trainee - Short-term Trading - E.ON UK
      Sep 2022 - Dec 2022 · 4 mos

      • Development of a Python-based optimization model to enable multi-market optimization of battery assets across frequency response (Dynamic Containment) and wholesale markets, improving revenue capture and trading efficiency.

    • Graduate Trainee - Short-term Trading - E.ON Energie Deutschland GmbH
      Mar 2022 - Aug 2022 · 6 mos

      - Supported day-ahead and intraday trading operations, assisting in market execution and scheduling. - Conducted market analysis and back-testing of trading strategies, providing insights for intraday and day-ahead market optimization. - Performed P&L benchmarking for day-ahead and intraday traders, ensuring accurate performance tracking. - Calculated curtailment P&L for renewable assets and developed corresponding Power BI reports for operational and commercial decision-making. - Prepared trader statistics, risk assessments, and position management analyses, building Power BI dashboards to support trading and risk teams.

  • Master Thesis Project at TenneT TSO GmbH
    Oct 2020 - May 2021 · 8 mos

    Project Portfolio Optimization - Asset Management - Risk Based Portfolio Steering - Project Prioritization and Scheduling - Optimization Algorithm Development (Python - Pyomo, Plotly and Pandas)

  • Research Assistant at Fraunhofer-Institut für Solare Energiesysteme ISE
    Sep 2019 - Oct 2020 · 1 yr 2 mos

    - Member C3 mobility project, -fostering the energy transition via sector coupling through the use of synthetic fuels. - Experimental simulation of ICE and exhaust gases on Test Rigs and collection of samples. - Research publication on the characterization of OME Light-off temperature on an Oxidation Catalysts. - Python (Pandas, Matplotlib, Seaborn ) for experimental data analysis and presentations

  • Project Lead at AIESEC Indonesia
    Jul 2016 - Sep 2016 · 3 mos

    - Acted as a liaison between NGOs and industrial sector in Jakarta to control the pollution in Cilliwung River. - Sampling and data management of water for impurities. - Stationed at Nusantra Water Treatment Centre in Tangerang for two weeks. - Organized fund raising activities and conducted seminars throughout the city to raise awareness for clean drinking water.