Taylor Turner Trusted advisor in technology, machine learning, and finance

About Me Projects

Niche Expertise

Taylor bonds cutting edge technology and a niche financial knowledge base to catalyze value-add change -- from small businesses to Fortune 100 enterprises. Taylor's passion is improving the management of private and institutional capital. As the world of technology and business moves at a faster pace, having someone on your team that knows the intricacies of both technology and capital management is an indispensable asset for the firm of the future. Teams need to work smarter by utilizing technology to build data-based heuristics for more effective decision making.

Finance

From working on one of the first Regulation A+ IPOs with W. R. Hambrecht, investment bankers for Apple and Google IPOs, to building out the entire technology stack for a commercial real estate company and his candidacy in the CFA program, Taylor brings a wealth of experience and technical knowledge for financial clients.

Software Development

Taylor's experience in front-end development to a full-stack focus at a Fortune 100 bank positions him well to understand the nuances of new projects in a sleu of industries. Taylor believes a long-term vision and a ruthless focus on value should be paramount.

Machine Learning

keras

From his time at a quantitative hedge fund and a private real estate fund to his many years at one of the top banking institutions in North America, Taylor's experience in applying machine Learning technology to real-world business problems is as much deep as it is wide.

Highlights from Taylor's Portfolio

rescaledranges

Hurst Rescaled Ranges

  • Python
  • Plotly
  • Prefect
  • Yahoo API

Python package allowing for you to run and tinker with Hurst's rescaled range on your favorite ticker! Using Prefect's design paradigm of tasks and flows, you can specify your flow parameters as a list of ticker symbols, run the main flow, and voila! The code will output a plotly chart with the rescaled range values plotted along with the underlying's series over time. Interested? Read more in the docs

hedge_fund

Hedge Fund Optimization and Automation

  • R
  • Shiny
  • Tradestation®
  • Risk management optimization

Hedge funds require a fully-automated trading platform from trade creation to trade submission and risk tolerance management. Taylor planned and developed the hedge fund’s derivatives trading platform. The algorithmic side of the hedge fund required expertise in both supervised and unsupervised machine learning algorithms. Taylor was recognized as the subject matter expert for tactical coding of trading algorithms in Object-Oriented Easy Language®.

pipeline

Enterprise ML Pipeline

  • PySpark
  • OOP Python
  • Deep Learning
  • Distributed Computing

A Python and Spark-based pipeline for time series forecasting. This required high levels of organization and thoughtfulness surrounding the underlying infrastructure's scalability. Ultimately this system processed many terabytes of data at scale with high availability requirements all while materially reducing the forecasts error -- the real value.

anomaly

Anomaly Detection Service

  • Time Series Modeling
  • Bayesian Modeling
  • OOP Python Package
  • API Development
  • AWS Lambda

An object-oriented Python package designed to ingest univariate time-series datasets and detect change points and anomalies in the given data. From testing various design paradigms to deploying the package as a Flask API on AWS, this project ultimately delivered a long-term, extensible solution to a very common problem.

confidential

Confidential Project

  • Python
  • Dask
  • AWS EMR

Can't say much ...

nerd

Personal Budgeting Tool

  • R
  • Personal Finances
  • Budgeting
  • Financial Analysis

Anyone who has worked with Taylor, knows he is definitely a nerd at heart. In his personal time, he enjoys thinking about how to analyze data better and glean move value from simplicity. He built this simple tool for his personal life to track and understand where and how he can improve the management of his own capital. Check out his github repo for more!