Darshan Patel

I am a Quantitative Developer with 4 years of experience researching, building, and deploying systematic options trading strategies and market data infrastructure across equity and commodity markets. I combine strategy research—signal generation, backtesting, optimization, and risk analytics—with engineering high-volume, automated data pipelines, primarily in Python and C++.

In my recent Data Analyst role at the Illinois Dept. of Commerce and Economic Opportunity, I built an automated rule-based scoring and decision engine, designed a 147-field operational tracking system with status monitoring and exception detection, and authored quantitative research modeling funding and project outcomes. Previously, as a Quantitative Analyst / Developer, I owned the end-to-end lifecycle of strategy development, engineered automated backtesting and parameter optimization on tick and OHLCV data, reduced manual processing time by 30% through market data pipeline automation across 200+ instruments, and delivered real-time signal-scanning and research dashboards for the trading desk.