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Adam Darmanin

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Lead Consultant, Applied AI & Data Platforms at Hecatus Research
📍 Spain

Adam is a Senior Engineering Director with 20 years of experience specializing in quantitative finance and AI. He has led large-scale Quant platforms at BlackRock and holds an MSc in Artificial Intelligence. Colleagues describe him as efficient, direct, and having a unique combination of engineering expertise and business acumen.

He is passionate about the intersection of advanced technology and finance, having co-founded an AI startup and authored research on the application of Large Language Models in trading.

He recently presented his paper on "Language Model Guided Reinforcement Learning in Quantitative Trading" at the 2025 International Conference on Foundation and Large Language Models in Vienna.

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Experience
7 Years
Current Role
Lead Consultant, Applied AI & Data Platforms
Job Level
Middle
Location
Spain
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LLMs in Finance
Authored and presented a paper on applying Language Models and Reinforcement Learning to quantitative trading strategies at an international AI conference.
Quant Platform Scaling
At BlackRock, he led a 35+ person organization responsible for a quantitative platform running 13K+ models across $600B in assets under management.
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Career

Work history

1-2025
Lead Consultant, Applied AI & Data Platforms
Hecatus Research
6-2021 - 9-2024
Senior Director
BlackRock
1-2017 - 7-2021
Owner & Fractional CTO
Call for Atlas
5-2018 - 5-2021
Enterprise Engineering Manager
Trilogy
9-2018 - 4-2020
CTO Co-Founder
ProdX.ai
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Education
12-2025 - 12-2027
MScFE
WorldQuant University
6-2023 - 11-2025
MSc in Artificial Intelligence
University of Malta
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