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Sarthak Agarwal

Analyst - Data Science at American Express || Computer Science Engineering, BITS Pilani

Bangalore Urban

4+ years of work experience

American Express
Jan 20251 yr 8 mosPresent

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Wells Fargo
Aug 20246 mosJan 2025

Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Greenland Investment Management
Jan 20246 mosJun 2024

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

-Created Calendar Spreads: Developed calendar spreads for liquid SHFE, NYMEX, and ICE commodities, improved data verification by updating holiday times from exchange websites for clean reporting and reduced the processing time by 40% by optimizing SQL hits from O(n) to O(1) -Experimented with Alpha Strategies: Set up Jupyter notebooks, implemented, and tuned two alpha strategies (n1Highn2Low, bbCrossover) on COMEX GC 2023, integrating technical indicators and exit strategies. -Enhanced Data Verification: Verified bid, ask, and mid OHLC prices, and generated percentile-based statistics to ensure data accuracy and handle outliers. -Organized Historical Data: Unzipped and processed 1.5 million data files across 14 years spanning 7500 Chinese contracts, converting them into contract-wise BCPs for insertion into TickDB -Set Up ETF Data Flow: Established data flow for 40 ETF contracts, created insertion logic, generated minute-wise ticks, and developed session and product-wise percentiles, streamlining ETF data processing.
Wells Fargo
May 20233 mosJul 2023

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

-Analysed 170,000+ FX transactions to derive statistical insights on seasonality, volatility, association, outlier, and customer-profile analysis for pricing dashboards- -Utilized XG Boost to develop an ML algorithm that precisely predicts Foreign Exchange transaction spreads within a narrow range of 0.25%
ShARE BITS Pilani
Jul 20221 yr 3 mosSep 2023

-Led a 7-member team in a green fuel firm's operations strategy, streamlining org structure across 10 departments, reducing expenses by over 35% -Spearheaded junior member recruitment, achieving a 130% Y-o-Y increase in applications received, and a 0% dropout rate of recruits -Achieved a first-time 100% submission rate in internal modules (M1) and generated first-ever INR 1.5 lakh in revenue from startup projects
ShARE BITS Pilani
Oct 20211 yr 2 mosNov 2022

France

-Worked on a Rewards system ideation and pitching for ECOVIA -Identified 16 critical issues in user engagement, unit economics, and partnerships for reusable packaging startup -Proposed a 12-point strategy with 7 ideas to boost user engagement and 5 methods for up to 60% cost reduction

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Education

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

20204 yrs2024
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ShARE's Leadership Programme of Excellence

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Headline

Analyst - Data Science at American Express || Computer Science Engineering, BITS Pilani

Location

Bangalore Urban

AI stack

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Work experience

Analyst - Data Science at American Express, Jan 2025 - Present · 1 yr 8 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Program Associate at Wells Fargo, Aug 2024 - Jan 2025 · 6 mos, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Quantitative Research Intern at Greenland Investment Management, Jan 2024 - Jun 2024 · 6 mos, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, -Created Calendar Spreads: Developed calendar spreads for liquid SHFE, NYMEX, and ICE commodities, improved data verification by updating holiday times from exchange websites for clean reporting and reduced the processing time by 40% by optimizing SQL hits from O(n) to O(1) -Experimented with Alpha Strategies: Set up Jupyter notebooks, implemented, and tuned two alpha strategies (n1Highn2Low, bbCrossover) on COMEX GC 2023, integrating technical indicators and exit strategies. -Enhanced Data Verification: Verified bid, ask, and mid OHLC prices, and generated percentile-based statistics to ensure data accuracy and handle outliers. -Organized Historical Data: Unzipped and processed 1.5 million data files across 14 years spanning 7500 Chinese contracts, converting them into contract-wise BCPs for insertion into TickDB -Set Up ETF Data Flow: Established data flow for 40 ETF contracts, created insertion logic, generated minute-wise ticks, and developed session and product-wise percentiles, streamlining ETF data processing.

Summer Analyst at Wells Fargo, May 2023 - Jul 2023 · 3 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, -Analysed 170,000+ FX transactions to derive statistical insights on seasonality, volatility, association, outlier, and customer-profile analysis for pricing dashboards- -Utilized XG Boost to develop an ML algorithm that precisely predicts Foreign Exchange transaction spreads within a narrow range of 0.25%

Senior Member and Project Director at ShARE BITS Pilani, Jul 2022 - Sep 2023 · 1 yr 3 mos, -Led a 7-member team in a green fuel firm's operations strategy, streamlining org structure across 10 departments, reducing expenses by over 35% -Spearheaded junior member recruitment, achieving a 130% Y-o-Y increase in applications received, and a 0% dropout rate of recruits -Achieved a first-time 100% submission rate in internal modules (M1) and generated first-ever INR 1.5 lakh in revenue from startup projects

Junior Member at ShARE BITS Pilani, Oct 2021 - Nov 2022 · 1 yr 2 mos, France, -Worked on a Rewards system ideation and pitching for ECOVIA -Identified 16 critical issues in user engagement, unit economics, and partnerships for reusable packaging startup -Proposed a 12-point strategy with 7 ideas to boost user engagement and 5 methods for up to 60% cost reduction

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

ShARE's Leadership Programme of Excellence, ShARE - Growing a new generation of leaders

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