Kostas Kostiadis, PhD
Financial Markets eCommerce Technology
Kostas Kostiadis
Welcome to kostiadis.com! I'm Kostas and I'm a managing director at Standard Chartered Bank, currently running eCommerce technology for financial markets. Full details can be found by following the link to my CV.
I started my graduate life as a C++ developer doing research into artificial intelligence and machine learning. More specifically I worked on multi-agent systems and agent co-operation using robotic football as the testbed for my experiments. Details can be found in my Publications page.
After completing my PhD, I started working in the games industry putting my AI knowledge to good use. I worked on a number of titles for all major consoles and also PCs and handhelds.
In 2007 I made the move from the games industry to investment banking. I've worked in a number of areas (algos, market access, distribution, single dealer platforms, etc.) and covered a range of products (bonds, repos, crypto, FX) but my main focus has been FX. Once I discovered the fast pace and technical challenges of FX low latency high frequency trading I was hooked. Algo trading is an area of particular interest to me, especially the potential for ML applications in the field.
Even though I enjoy management, I'll always have that developer itch than needs scratching. So, in 2020 I decided to take a deeper look into python, pandas, and the powerful machine learning frameworks used for analytics, trend analysis, and classification. I succesfully completed a course at Columbia Business School and am currently looking at enhancing this with a deeper dive into data science and analytics using machine learning (e.g. areas such as naive Bayes and NLP, k-means clustering, PCA, etc.)
In my limited spare time, I enjoy training in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu (aka bjj). Those who have experienced bjj, will understand that I use the word "enjoy" with caution here...
The best way to contact me is via the Contact page.