Shashank Shankar
Interested In Financial Engineering
Hi, I'm Shashank.
I'm interested in the intersection of financial engineering, focusing on algorithmic trading and quantitative investing across equities, options, forex, and fixed-income markets. I'm also curious on how mathematical models for pricing, risk, and yield curve dynamics can be applied to real-world trading and portfolio management.
Lately, I've been focused on building developer tools for financial data and infrastructure. I'm working on Exanomic, a macro and rates data platform for developers, and thinking about how to make economic and fixed-income data easier to use in research and production workflows. We recently raised a pre-seed round led by Afore Capital to continue building the platform and improve reliability and developer experience over time.
Recent Thoughts
The AI-Native Hedge Fund
The next generation of quantitative funds will behave less like firms with static strategies and more like continuous learning systems built around data, models, and adaptive risk infrastructure.
What I Think The Future Of Startups Looks Like
The startup craze has reached its peak, with VCs eager to fund "AI this" or "AI that." But we're approaching startups the wrong way. The future lies in building platform-level products, not another AI tool.