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MASTER OF QUANTITATIVE FINANCE · UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO

TAHSIN
JAWWAD

Quant researcher & software engineer

Quantitative finance at Waterloo, computer science from UBC. I do the research, and I build the software it runs on.

HIRING FOR
PythonC++SQLpandasstatsmodelsDocker
VIEW MY WORKRÉSUMÉGITHUB LINKEDIN
96.7%

Average across my UBC computer science degree

70%

Of a team's manual work automated in my developer co-op

Gold

Math Olympiad medal, ranked 1st in the UAE

PROFILEWATERLOO, ON
Portrait of Tahsin Jawwad
TAHSIN JAWWAD
QUANT · SOFTWARE
NOW
MQF, University of Waterloo · Dec 2027
BEFORE
BSc Honours CS, UBC · GPA 4.32/4.33
STACK
Python · C++ · SQL · R · Java
QUANT-RELEVANT UBC COURSES · FINAL %
Time Series & Forecasting100
Applied Regression100
Stochastic Modelling & Simulation99
Matrix Algebra99
HIGHLIGHTS
  • NOWMaster of Quantitative Finance, University of Waterloo
  • GRADUATEDUBC Computer Science with a 96.7% average
  • THESISPlain-English questions to MongoDB queries, 97% fewer translation failures
  • QUANT RESEARCHCaught survivorship bias inflating a strategy's Sharpe ratio fourfold
  • CO-OPAutomated 70% of a team's manual workflow
  • OLYMPIADGold medal, ranked 1st in the UAE
  • SCHOLARSHIPS$110K awarded at UBC
RESEARCH & PROJECTS

SELECTED WORK

QUANT RESEARCH2026 · v2 FORWARD-TESTING SINCE OCT 2026

Statistical Arbitrage in Cryptocurrencies

Momentum, reversal, order-flow and funding-carry strategies on 2020–26 Binance spot and perp data, combined into a walk-forward book. The interesting part is what happened when I stopped letting the data flatter it.

47

Strategy configs researched and registered

−0.02

Book beta to BTC

1.68 / 2.42

Funding-carry Sharpe, dev / validation

43%

Order-flow P&L lost to missed limit fills

PythonpandasNumPySciPystatsmodelsDeflated Sharpe
CODE REPORT
ROBUSTNESS CHECKLOCKBOX · 2025-07 → 2026-07

Lockbox Sharpe of the frozen book, one realism fix at a time

As run, research coin list+1.46
Same list, archive data+1.45
Pegged & tokenized assets out+1.26
All 585 pairs, delisted included+0.35
+ Carry on perp prices−0.01
+ Limit orders must fill+0.12
−0.91

Survivorship bias. The research coin list was missing 46% of the historical top-100; putting the delisted coins back took most of the edge with it.

HONOURS THESISFIRST-AUTHOR MANUSCRIPTUBC · 2025–26

Text-to-NoSQL via SQL

Natural-language questions to MongoDB queries, using SQL as the bridge. I extended a rule-based SQL-to-MongoDB translator to joins, grouping, set operations and correlated subqueries, and resolved SQL tables to nested collections and arrays.

  • Zero regressions while cutting translation failures by 97%.
  • Audited 321 failures by hand and traced 75% of the gold-to-predicted accuracy loss to upstream Text-to-SQL errors.
JavaPythonMongoDBLLMsDocker
CODE TECHNICAL REPORT
RESULTSTEND-SPIDER · 2,775 QUERIES

Translation failures

Original translator1,021
Extended translator32
Track = all 2,775 queries · −97%

Execution accuracy

From gold SQL96.0%
End to end88.4%
SIDE PROJECT2026

Pokémon Assistant

Desktop companion for open-world Pokémon games built on the Cobblemon mod: team builder, damage and KO-odds calculator, and a live battle tracker fed by a Fabric mod over a local WebSocket.

ElectronReactTypeScriptWebSocketVitest
PRIVATE REPOENGINEERING
TEAM PROJECT2024

Discord Clone

Real-time chat app built by a team for a software engineering course: dockerized, with Clerk auth and CI/CD.

Next.jsTypeScriptDockerJest
CODE ENGINEERING
ML PROJECT2024

Movie Recommender

Collaborative and content-based filtering on MovieLens in TensorFlow: about 5.9M parameters, 100 latent features.

PythonTensorFlowNumPypandas
CODE RESEARCH & ML
EDUCATION & WORK

EXPERIENCE

  1. SEP 2026 — DEC 2027
    IN PROGRESS

    Master of Quantitative Finance

    University of Waterloo · Waterloo, ON
    • Coursework: Stochastic Calculus for Quantitative Finance, Estimation & Hypothesis Testing.
  2. MAY — DEC 2025
    CO-OP

    Junior Developer

    Aether Automation Inc. · Vancouver, BC
    • Cut manual workload 70% by automating Zoho workflows in Deluge, Python and JavaScript that sync data across teams.
    • Cut email response time 60% with an OpenAI-based classifier that triages customer inquiries and drafts replies.
  3. SEP 2022 — APR 2026
    COMPLETED

    BSc Honours, Computer Science (Minor in Data Science)

    University of British Columbia · Kelowna, BC
    • 96.7% average, GPA 4.32/4.33. Dean's List 2022–24, Dean's Scholar 2024–25.
    • $110K in scholarships, including the $80K International Major Entrance Scholarship.
    • Stochastic Modelling & Simulation (99), Time Series & Forecasting (100), Applied Regression (100), Machine Learning (100), Matrix Algebra (99), Sampling & Design (99), Analysis of Algorithms (98).
  4. 2022
    COMPLETED

    A Levels & IGCSE

    The Winchester School, Jebel Ali · Dubai, UAE
    • A Levels: 4 A*, Best Across Three in the UAE. IGCSE: 9 A*, 1 A.
METHODS, LANGUAGES, LIBRARIES

TOOLKIT

QUANT METHODS

Research

  • Backtesting · walk-forward optimization
  • Time-series & regression analysis
  • Multiple-testing correction · deflated Sharpe
  • Transaction-cost & market-impact modelling
  • Stochastic modelling & simulation
  • Stochastic calculusAT WATERLOO
LANGUAGES & TOOLS

Engineering

  • Python · C++ · Java
  • SQL · R
  • TypeScript · React · Electron
  • MySQL · MongoDB
  • Git · GitHub Actions · Docker
  • Unit-tested research code
LIBRARIES

Data & ML

  • pandas · NumPy
  • SciPy · statsmodels
  • scikit-learn
  • PyTorch · TensorFlow
  • OpenAI API · LLM pipelines
  • Recommender systems
AWARDS & COMPETITIONS

HONOURS

Gold #1 UAE

Mathematics Olympiad

International Olympiad Foundation · UAE Rank 1 in 2019, Rank 3 in 2020

3 years

Dean's List & Dean's Scholar

University of British Columbia · Dean's List 2022–24, Dean's Scholar 2024–25

$110K

Scholarships

University of British Columbia · including the $80K International Major Entrance Scholarship

2019

UAE Team, 16th Hanoi Open Mathematics Competition

Hanoi, Vietnam

2022

Best Across Three in the UAE

Cambridge International A Levels · 4 A*

05 · CONTACT

LET'S TALK

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