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Dakota Wixom

Dakota Wixom

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Quantitative Analyst

QuantCourse.com | New York City

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Authored Curriculum

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My Most Recent Course

Introduction to Portfolio Risk Management in Python

4 hr13 Videos51 Exercises27,460 Learners

Courses

Introduction to Portfolio Risk Management in Python
Introduction to Financial Concepts in Python

Courses

Introduction to Portfolio Risk Management in Python
Introduction to Financial Concepts in Python

Tracks

Applied Finance in Python
Finance Fundamentals in Python
Finance Fundamentals with CFI

DataCamp Course Completion

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Courses

Introduction to R
Financial Trading in R

My Work Experience

Where I've interned and worked during my career.

Topaz Labs | Feb 2024 - Present

Product Manager, Gigapixel & Photo AI

Leading the image product team, building AI technologies and applications to increase the quality of images for millions of users around the world.
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Visa | Nov 2022 - Jan 2024

Technical Product Manager, AI & Analytics

Building analytics and products at Visa to orchestrate and optimize billions of dollars of payments using machine learning and generative AI.

Perl Street | May 2021 - Nov 2022

CTO & Co-Founder

Building the operating system for financing and managing the next generation of distributed infrastructure and hardware technologies. Moving atoms with electrons.

Perl Street | May 2020 - May 2021

Chief Technology Officer

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Perl Street | May 2019 - May 2020

Chief Data Scientist

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Yewno, Inc. | May 2017 - May 2019

Quantitative Analyst

Built indices, and other financial data products like supply chain network analytics and ETFs for emerging themes like EVs and Energy Storage by using graph theory and machine learning.

Mizuho Americas | Jun 2016 - Aug 2016

Quantitative Analyst (Intern)

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Charles Schwab | Jun 2015 - Aug 2015

Quantitative Risk Analyst (Intern)

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My Education

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Y Combinator | 2022
Master of Science (M.S.), Financial AnalyticsStevens Institute of Technology | 2017
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Quantitative FinanceStevens Institute of Technology | 2017

About Me

Dakota Wixom

Dakota Wixom is a quantitative finance analyst at Yewno, where he applies AI to create innovative financial products. Dakota founded QuantCourse.com and has also worked in quantitative risk management and investment banking roles in New York City and San Francisco. He has a B.S. in Quantitative Finance and a M.S. in Financial Analytics from the Stevens Institute of Technology.

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