Nick Psaris
Bio
Nick Psaris is a seasoned quantitative developer and Managing Director at Bank of America, where he leads the Market Data Science and Engineering team. With over two decades of experience designing and deploying automated option market-making, equity statistical arbitrage backtesting and trading systems, and analytical data platforms—all built in the high-performance q language and kdb+ database—he holds a B.S. in Physics and Chinese from Duke University, an M.S. in Computational Finance (MSCF) from Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School, and has been a CFA charterholder since 2003. Nick is the author of Q Tips: Fast, Scalable and Maintainable Kdb+, sharing deep insights from his production q trading systems, and Fun Q: A Functional Introduction to Machine Learning in Q, which elegantly demonstrates how to implement twelve machine learning algorithms from scratch.