Engineer. Coder. Fund manager. One unusual journey

21-May-2026

Engineer. Coder. Fund manager. One unusual journey

Name: Engineer. Coder. Fund manager. One unusual journey
Uploaded: 2026-05-21T10:05:07+05:30
Duration: 10 min
Description: Gaurik Shah built India's first pure quant research desk in 2007. What he learned along the way will surprise anyone who thinks systematic investing is just about the math.

Gaurik Shah built India's first pure quant research desk in 2007. What he learned along the way will surprise anyone who thinks systematic investing is just about the math.

Gaurik Shah, Fund Manager at Mirae Asset Investment Managers India, studied instrumentation engineering, spent a year writing code at Infosys and then did something almost no one in India had done before: built the country's first pure quant research desk in 2007.

In this first episode of The Systematic Edge, Value Research founder Dhirendra Kumar traces Shah’s journey from Mumbai to a Hong Kong trading floor, covering what engineering taught him about thinking in systems, what the Japan trade taught him about stop losses and why discipline, not the algorithm, is the only real edge in systematic investing.