Frankline Oyolo, Misango

Summary

I am a Quantitative developer with 3+ years of entrepreneurial and contractual experience building high-performance trading systems and financial models. My mission is to democratize access to low-latency markets free to developing world traders through optimized engineering practices.

Skills & Technologies
PythonRustC++C#AWSDockerKubernetesPostgreSQLTensorFlowPyTorchGitLinux
Awards
  • Dec 2025: Granted The All Builders Welcome Grant by Amazon to attend the AWS Re:Invent conference in Las Vegas
  • Apr 2025: Granted The All Builders Welcome Grant by Amazon to attend the AWS Reinforce conference in Philadelphia
  • Mar 2025: Granted the PyconUS Travel Grant by the Python Software Foundation to attend the PyCON in Pennsylvania
  • Jan 2025: Awarded the Summer @ EPFL Grant of CHF 5000 of a 1.6% competitive rate globally to complete the SURF
  • Dec 2024: Granted The All Builders Welcome Grant by Amazon to attend the AWS Re:Invent conference in Las Vegas
  • Apr 2023: Awarded $5000 for winning the AI Tech4good Hackathon organized by Accenture
  • Sep 2022: Awarded $10,000 as African Impact Grant Award for winning the Healthcare theme by Mastercard Foundation
  • Aug 2022: Granted $150,000 for 4 years, termed Future Leaders Scholarship by HKU, to study Engineering
  • May 2022: Granted CHF 4000 by Glencore to attend the Swiss-African Hydrogen case challenge in Switzerland
Certifications
  • • AWS Machine Learning Specialty
  • • AWS Solutions Architect Professional
  • • Financial Modeling & Valuation Analyst (FMVA)® - Corporate Finance Institute® (CFI)
  • • Android Developer Associate - Google
Courses
  • • Algorithms - Stanford University
  • • Algorithms, Part I - Princeton University
  • • Algorithms, Part II - Princeton University
  • • Financial Markets - Yale University
  • • Analysis of Algorithms - Princeton University
  • • Mathematics for Machine Learning: Linear Algebra - Imperial College London
  • • Python Essentials for MLOps - Duke University
  • • Introduction to Machine Learning: Supervised Learning - University of Colorado Boulder
  • • Introduction to Portfolio Construction and Analysis with Python - EDHEC Business School
  • • Introduction to the Internet of Things and Embedded Systems - University of California, Irvine
  • • Advanced Data Structures, RSA and Quantum Algorithms - University of Colorado Boulder
Interests & Activities
Languages: English (Native), German (A2 Fluency), French (A2 Fluency), Mandarin (Beginner)
Interests: Chess (Blitz 1800, Rapid 1500), Leetcode (top 5%), Cycling, International travel
Self Readings
Entrepreneurship
Arithmax Research Capital
Co-Founder & Principal Software Engineer
Jan 2023 – Present
Remote
  • Quantitative research firm managing $1,500,000 USD AUM with 4% MoM growth targeting institutional and high-net-worth clients in APAC markets
  • Secured proprietary trading capital from Hong Kong Science and Technology Park alongside structured Limited Partnerships
  • Enhanced collaboration with team of quantitative researchers, engineers, and data scientists from Caltech, MIT, EPFL, NUS, NTU, HKUST, and ITAM
  • Built high-performance trading systems using Rust, C#, Python, C++ on AWS EC2 achieving 98.7% uptime with sub-250μs latency
  • Developed 12 systematic trading strategies generating 67.3% annual returns with 14.2% volatility and max drawdown under 8%
  • Implemented crypto-traditional asset correlation trading generating 34.7% annual alpha with 1.89 Sharpe ratio
  • Enhanced carry strategies with GARCH forecasts achieving 28.4% annual returns on G10 portfolio with 16.3% volatility
  • Implemented Black-Litterman optimization achieving 2.31 information ratio with 95% tracking error within target bands
  • Incorporated satellite data, social sentiment achieving 15.7% improvement versus traditional factor models
Industrial Experience
BASF SE
Associate Software Engineer - Contract
Jan 2025 – Jun 2025
Remote
  • Modeled trade policy shocks using panel difference-in-differences with local projection estimators, generating 50k Monte Carlo paths
  • Reduced DSO volatility by 42% and improved cash flow forecast RMSE by 18%
  • Optimized global supplier networks through CVaR-constrained Monte Carlo simulation, releasing $2.3M working capital
  • Developed 300+ SHAP-interpretable automated valuation models (R²=0.92) guiding semiconductor sales strategy with 14% EBIT uplift
Manulife Financial Corporation
Data Governance Analyst on Temporary Project
Jun 2024 – Aug 2024
Remote
  • Built metadata enrichment engine processing 2.3M+ Azure Purview assets (F1-score=87.2%), increasing tag coverage from 4% to 65%
  • Implemented column-level lineage tracking using Snowflake and GitOps, reducing model onboarding time by 40%
  • Automated 300+ data quality checks with Great Expectations framework, reducing critical error rate by 62%
TalentLabs Asia Limited
Data Engineer
Jun 2023 – Aug 2023
Remote
  • Built Analytics dashboard using LookerML processing 12k+ user events, improving UI conversion by 75% through A/B testing
  • Automated GCP ETL pipelines with Prefect orchestrator, reducing weekly reporting time from 20h to 2h
  • Developed distributed web scraper harvesting 8k+/day HK job postings via Python Scrapy/Selenium
Scientific Research Experience
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL)
Software Engineer on Contract - Lab for Media and Design
Jun 2025 – Aug 2025
Remote
  • Developed DCRNN-based spatio-temporal forecasting system for Swiss bike-sharing flows achieving 27% RMSE reduction vs baselines
  • Engineered geospatial data pipeline integrating 10M+ trips with OpenStreetMap/FSO datasets (99.7% accuracy)
  • Designed attention-based interpretability framework revealing station-type specific feature importance patterns
  • Deployed containerized inference on EPFL HPC cluster using Kubernetes, achieving 40% latency reduction through GPU-optimized DCGRU kernels
Department of Architecture, University of Hong Kong
Software Engineer on Contract
Dec 2023 – Apr 2024
Remote
  • Engineered Meta SAM transformer-based instance segmentation pipeline (ViT-H backbone, 632M parameters) achieving 91.8% IoU
  • Implemented distributed coordination algorithm for 200-node swarm robotics system using ROS2 Galactic with <5ms latency
  • Fine-tuned DeepLab 3+ with Xception-65 backbone (26.5M parameters) achieving 0.87 R² on 3-year forecasts
  • Architected Kubernetes-orchestrated MLOps pipeline reducing data preprocessing time by 78%
Center for Teaching and Learning, University of Hong Kong
Software Engineer on Outsourcing Contract
Mar 2023 – May 2023
Remote
  • Implemented BERT-Large (340M parameters) for semantic analysis of 30k+ student responses with 94.2% topic classification accuracy
  • Developed Meta BART-based bidirectional transformer sentiment analysis system achieving F1 score of 0.89
  • Engineered distributed data lake architecture (S3-compatible, 12TB capacity) enabling sub-second query response