Scotiabank - Capital Markets Data Analyst Co-op
Client Insights & Data Analytics, GBM Data Quality | May 2026 - Aug 2026 | Toronto, ON
Tech Environment: SQL, data quality checks, rule generation, capital markets analytics
- Built a scalable SQL rule-generation framework that translated critical data elements into 3,000+ data quality checks for completeness, validity, consistency, and accuracy.
Scotiabank - FX Quantitative Trading Researcher, Incoming
Electronic Execution Services, Global Banking & Markets | Sep 2026 - Apr 2027 | Toronto, ON
Focus: FX market microstructure, execution modeling, systematic strategy development
- Incoming research role focused on alpha-signal research, FX market microstructure, execution modeling, and systematic strategy development.
Scotiabank - Quantitative Developer Co-op, Algorithmic Trading
Electronic Execution Services, Global Banking & Markets | Nov 2025 - Apr 2026 | Toronto, ON
Tech Environment: Python, SQL, Bloomberg API, FIX protocol, Gaussian Mixture Models, reinforcement learning
- Improved VWAP execution performance by 7% by modeling Canadian and U.S. equity order flow with Gaussian Mixture Models and reinforcement-learning-based analysis.
- Built a Bloomberg-integrated outage platform that detected failed algorithmic executions and automated refund and market-impact calculations across 20,000+ orders.
- Developed Python and SQL analytics using FIX execution data to reconstruct order lifecycles, diagnose routing discrepancies, and investigate fill-quality issues.
Scotiabank - Global Equity Trading Developer Co-op
Electronic Execution Services, Global Banking & Markets | May 2025 - Oct 2025 | Toronto, ON
Tech Environment: Python, SQL, Angular, Bloomberg API, execution analytics, client reporting
- Developed full-stack trading tools for execution analytics, client reporting, and post-trade investigations.
- Redesigned commission-calculation workflows for client-specific rates, exchange fees, account rules, and complex trade structures.
Big Tuna - Software Game Developer
Discord Game Platform, Three-Person Development Team | Aug 2020 - May 2024 | Oakville, ON
Tech Environment: JavaScript, SQL, JSON, Git, software testing
- Co-developed and maintained a JavaScript and SQL game platform serving 25,000+ active players.
Research Assistant - Reinforcement Learning for Market Making
Professor Wei Xu | May 2023 - Aug 2024 | Toronto, ON
Tech Environment: Python, PyTorch, Pandas, DDPG, DQN, backtesting
- Developed cryptocurrency market-making agents using DDPG and DQN with reward functions for inventory risk, spread capture, execution, and profitability.
- Built a Python simulation and backtesting environment from 100M+ order-book records to evaluate trading policies.
University of Toronto Aerospace Team
Propulsion and Aerodynamics Simulations | 2023 - 2024 | Toronto, ON
Tech Environment: Python, Linux, NumPy, RocketCEA, Git
- Developed 6DoF propulsion and aerodynamics simulations for rocket trajectory analysis.
