Saahil Ahmad

About Saahil Ahmad

Kelsey, in this terrifying world, all we have are the connections we make.”I hold on to that.To the people who show up at the right time.To the conversations that change what you thought was possible.To the unexpected collaborations that somehow just click.To the people who change our lives in unexpectedly beautiful ways.Everything I do — whether it’s experimenting with AI, coding something weird at 2 AM, or obsessing over a problem no one asked me to solve — comes from that same place: curiosity, and a quiet hope that it might matter to someone.From AI avatar that feel human, to undetectable meeting companions, from multimodal research tools to fully automated trading bots — I solve problems that catch my eye, whether they’re frustratingly small or beautifully complex.I build stuff I wish existed.Certified in Generative AI, Data Science, and AI Foundations by Oracle Cloud.• Winner — AIQoD Hackathon• 2nd Runner-Up — EXCEED 3.0 by Wabtec• Finalist — Hack4Change 2024, Mathack 2.0• Gold Level — International Quant Championship (IQC)Open to relocating to UAE asap.Still building, still shipping, still connecting the dots.Let’s connect. You never know where that might lead.

Experience

1. Quant Research Consultant

   WorldQuant

   May 2025 — Present

   Developed and submitted 50+ high-performing alpha (simulated strategies) integrating news, fundamentals, and volatility signals, consistently improving Sharpe ratio, turnover, and risk-adjusted returns.• Built automated API pipeline leveraging AI and genetic algorithms to generate, backtest, and simulate alphas, enabling high-throughput evaluation across 100s of datasets and scaling alpha production several-fold

Education

• The Pentecostal Assembly School

  High School Diploma

• Vellore Institute of Technology

  Bachelor of Technology - BTech

  2022 — 2026