BRIGHT A. BELLO
Data Scientist, Student of Quant Finance and Actuarial Science
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About Me
Curious and professional with a love for new experiences. I am an unhappy football fan these days, but very happy playing it myself. Amateur chess player with a weakness for chocolate. Data Science aficianado and Quant Finance enthusiast.
Programming Languages
Quant
Data Science & ML
Data Engineering
Experience
Fund Management Intern
Fund Launch • January - March 2026 • Vancouver BC
Structured fund management internship focused on alternative asset funds. Training covers fund operations, financial modelling, market research and investment decision workflows
Compliance and Financial Crimes
Zenith Bank Ghana Limited. • September 2022 - July 2025 • Accra, Ghana
Financial crimes analysis, SWIFT transaction monitoring, Sanctions policy development and Regulatory compliance
Claims Officer (Intern)
Quality Life Assurance Company Limited • Jul 2022 - December 2022 • Tamale, Ghana
Performed claims reconciliation for life and mortality insurance claims. I was also partially in charge of bonus payment computations for agents of the company.
Projects
SMA Web App
Developed a web application that allows users to backtest Simple Moving Average trading strategies on ETFs of their choice. The app fetches historical price data from yfinance,stooq or uses cached data, and provides visualizations of the strategy's performance.
Mean Reversion Strategy Backtested
Made a Mean Reversion backtesting strategy that dynamically loads price data from yfinance via its api and tested different approaches to determine an optimal strategy for automating trades. Clicking this link will send you to the html rendered github page. For access to the original code notebook, follow the link on the html page to the repo.
Credit Risk Model
Built a fully reproducible end to end classification model deployed using RestAPI and dockerized, image available on dockerhub. This model focused on minimising false negatives in line with the business goal of identifying customers likely to default on their credit payments.
West Africa Analytics Dashboard
Built a comprehensive dashboard using data from the WorldBanks open datasets, via their API, to provide visuals and summary statistics of West African countries across different categories like GDP and population.
Education
Masters - Data Science
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada • August 2025 - present
ML, AI, Python - Pandas, Numpy, R, Github, Docker, Reproducible Workflows
Masters - Financial Engineering
World Quant University - Washington • Sep 2024 - Aug 2026
Derivatives and Pricing, Financial Markets, ML for Finance, Deep Learning for Finance, Risk Management, Portfolio Management, Econometrics, Reinforcement Learning
Bachelors - Actuarial Science
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology • Sep 2018 - Oct 2022
Python, R, Statistics, Mathematics, Actuarial Math, Corporate Finance, Financial Mathematics
Certifications
Foundations Of Financial Engineering
WQU • 2024
Algorithmic Trading
Udemy • 2025