avishalom shalit

senior manager data science and analytics

About

Research, teaching, programming, data science and algorithm development experience. Specialties: Data analysis and modeling. Big data pipelines. Network analysis expertise. Automated trading in markets. Language models and extraction. Personalization and user-data bi-clustering

Country

canada

City

kitchener

Industry

financial services

Skill

algorithms, programming, machine learning, matlab, data analysis, python, physics, software development, linux, software engineering, computer science, perl, big data, object oriented design, design patterns, neural networks, c++, mathematical modeling, java, predictive analytics, scientific computing, natural language processing, numerical analysis, data science, software design, tradestation, problem solving, communication, nvc, management, analytics, sql, strategy, git, consulting, data mining, hiring, team building, team leadership, team management, python

Experience

senior manager data science and analytics

carta

2019-10 - Present · 7 yrs

head algorithm development

sentigo.com

2009-5 - 2011-3 · 1 yr 11 mos

Developed algorithms for sentiment and context extraction from financial sources. (Forums, Blogs, etc) and aggregation into meaningful signals.

algorithms developer

collarity

2008-1 - 2008-1 · 1 mo

chief developer

sports forecasting group

2007-1 - 2008-1 · 1 yr 1 mo

developing an automated trading system for sports betting

teaching assistant

the hebrew university of jerusalem

2003-10 - 2007-10 · 4 yrs 1 mo

TA of the course "Neural Networks I".

instructor

the open university of israel

2001-5 - 2004-12 · 3 yrs 8 mos

Taught the courses "Algorithms" and "Formal Languages and Automata"

head of the algorithm and analytics

persado

2011-3 - 2014-7 · 3 yrs 5 mos

In our group we handle the numerical and theoretical heavy lifting for the company, starting with data insights for trillions of records, through design of experiments that are carried out, the modeling of the data, and the extraction of post experimental changes of strategy. We also get to plan ahead and come up with new products and ideas

algorithm developer and programmer of auto trading systems

avishalom shalit consultant/algorithm developer

2005-5 - 2011-1 · 5 yrs 9 mos

Freelance consultant. areas of interests include autotrading systems (financial markets) and internet browsing activity . recently I'm into trading in prediction markets. (sports betting)