Advanced Python for Quant Developers
Write fast, well-structured and well-tested Python for quantitative work: performance profiling, vectorization, concurrency, typing, packaging and design patterns.
Quant developers turn research ideas into fast, correct and maintainable software. This track covers the full stack of that work, from performance-oriented Python and market data structures to backtesting engine design, experiment infrastructure and risk components. It finishes with production-readiness practices and a capstone where you deliver a reviewed, tested system that runs against simulated feeds.
10 modules · 40 lessons · 10 weeks. Curriculum preview; the final syllabus may change before enrollment opens.
Build an event-driven backtesting engine with cost and slippage models and deterministic replays
Optimize a slow factor computation pipeline using profiling, vectorization and Numba
Deliver a paper-trading service on a simulated feed with monitoring and kill switch controls
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Write fast, well-structured and well-tested Python for quantitative work: performance profiling, vectorization, concurrency, typing, packaging and design patterns.
Design and build an event-driven trading system architecture with message queues, state management, risk services and replayable simulations shared between research and paper trading.
Build accurate, bias-aware backtesting engines in Python, from vectorized prototypes to event-driven simulators with realistic costs, fills and portfolio accounting.