Michael Watson
About
Michael Watson is from New York City Metropolitan Area. Michael is currently CEO & Founder at Hedgineer.io, located in New York, New York, United States. In Michael's previous role as a Founder at Chained Metrics, Michael worked in Miami, Florida, United States until Jun 2024. Prior to joining Chained Metrics, Michael was a Non-Association & Non-Compete at Citadel and held the position of Non-Association & Non-Compete. Prior to that, Michael was a Head of Equities Engineering, Managing Director at Citadel, based in New York, New York, United States from Jul 2020 to Aug 2021. Michael started working as Head of Enterprise Data at Citadel in Chicago, Illinois in Oct 2019. From Feb 2019 to Jul 2020, Michael was Director of Data Engineering at Citadel, based in Chicago. Prior to that, Michael was a Interim Head of SRE Asia at Citadel, based in Hong Kong from Aug 2019 to Dec 2019. Michael started working as Data Engineering Manager at Citadel in Mar 2018.
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Michael Watson's current jobs
Hedgineer transforms hedge funds and asset managers into AI enabled investors with world class technology. Our platform structures our clients data across risk, research, positions, and operations to deliver world class tools for PMs, Analysts, Risk, IT, and Operations . Our clients are able to go from zero to 1 in a matter of weeks, deploy what we know to be best in class, and over time significantly reduce their spend on technology resources.
Michael Watson's past jobs
Allowing investors to trade directly on fundamental KPIs such as device sales, subscribers, or margin instead of predicting stock price. It helps investors better manage risk and monetize their expertise without worrying about what is going on in the markets.
Could not work with former Citadel co-workers until August 2023 and Non-Compete through August 2022 with an exception granted for Chained Metrics prior to resignation.
Own the strategy and execution of all technology and data engineering solutions for Citadel's fundamental equities strategy, including Ashler Capital, Global Equities and Surveyor Capital. Lead dramatic new technologies including enabling investors to better monitor the mosaic of a company, customized research summarization based on analyst coverage, consolidation of company and portfolio tools, migrations off of dozens of legacy systems, overhaul of our data model for fundamental financial data, enable complex basket orders for trading, adding widgets to portfolio tools, risk arb and SPAC tracking, build out of various Jupyter integrations, initial buildout of advanced MS Office integrations, initial re-underwriting of corporate access, A LOT of migrations, and more.
Own and responsible for Citadel and Citadel Securities reference data systems (security master, entity master, pricing master).
Director of five separate data engineering teams for Citadel's fundamental equities businesses (Ashler Capital, Global Equities and Surveyor Capital) responsible for productionizing all alternative data research as well as owning the data experience within the equities platform.
Leading the build-out of our Hong Kong based SRE team across all strategies and platforms within the asset manager.
Manage a team of data engineers focused on the ETL and enhancement of the most critical alternative data data sets used across Citadel's fundamental equities businesses (Global Equities, Surveyor Capital and Ashler Capital)
Software engineer within equities engineering. I built and designed Citadel's datacatalog which serves and tracks the majority of data usage across several strategies, engineered various systems on Citadel's risk decomposition and performance attribution, transitioned the platform to Python from Perl and C++, and built a custom ecosystem of analytics using Jupyter.