Amit has 15 years’ experience as a quantitative analyst, specialising in the commodities sector. He has spent this time developing models and software to assist with derivative valuation and risk management, for banks, trading companies, and utility firms. His major successes include building a CTRM system used across multiple trading desks at Barclays, and a Group Risk model used for board-level decision-making at Centrica. He uses Python and Excel as his primary tools, and takes a client-oriented approach to gathering requirements and translating them into the building blocks of an appropriate solution. Amit is certified in Quantitative Finance, and earned a Masters degree in Mathematics with distinction from the University of Warwick.