Equipping finance professionals to succeed in the future of finance, since 2018.
What began on a Wells Fargo investment banking desk is now how finance professionals worldwide learn the tools their work is moving toward: from Excel, to Python, to AI, and whatever comes next.
How we got here
PyFi is founded
Zach Washam leaves Wells Fargo Securities, where he built the bank's first machine learning algorithm for investment banking and capital markets, files two algorithms for patent protection, and wins the 2018 Local Sphere Innovation Award. He launches Machine Learning Edge to teach finance professionals the Python he taught himself.
Distribution takes off
Zach signs distribution deals that put PyFi's training in front of finance professionals through major North American training providers, including Wall Street Oasis and the Corporate Finance Institute.
Gill meets Zach and joins PyFi
Gill Chowdhury joins PyFi, bringing a background in sales and distribution from a career in Manhattan brokerage where he built his own team and led $100M in residential sales.
Into the banks
Gill becomes a partner and expands PyFi's distribution into major institutions, landing the training inside banks including JPMorgan, Royal Bank of Canada, Bank of Montreal, and TD, increasing PyFi's reach to thousands of new finance professionals at top firms.
Gill becomes CEO as PyFi goes global
Gill steps into the CEO role and signs new distribution deals that expand PyFi's training across Europe and Asia.
Umut Sagir, CTO and Head of Programming
Umut Sagir joins as CTO and Head of Programming. London-based, with more than ten years across Deutsche Bank, Garanti Bank, and Danske Commodities and a specialization in machine learning and deep learning, he builds the next generation of PyFi's programs.
Python and AI for finance
PyFi equips finance professionals with the modern skill set their field runs on, from Python automation to AI workflows, with live instruction and a clear path from first function to production.
The people behind PyFi
Zach founded PyFi, originally Machine Learning Edge, in 2018 after a career as an investment banker at Wells Fargo Securities. While learning Python on the job, he noticed how much it had in common with the Excel models he built every day. Thinking of Python like Excel, he picked it up fast and went on to build Wells Fargo Securities' first machine learning algorithm for investment banking and capital markets. After filing two algorithms for patent protection and winning Wells Fargo's 2018 Local Sphere Innovation Award, he left the bank to teach finance professionals the skills he had taught himself.
Gill came to PyFi from a career in Manhattan brokerage, where he built his own team and led $100M in residential sales. He turned his attention to a new industry with one goal: modernize how finance professionals learn and work. Bringing a background in business development, sales, marketing, and management, he scaled PyFi's distribution across North America and into major banks, then partnered with Zach and took the company global. He now leads PyFi as CEO.
Umut leads PyFi's curriculum and technology as CTO and Head of Programming. Based in London, he brings more than ten years in finance across Deutsche Bank, Garanti Bank, and Danske Commodities, with a specialization in Python, machine learning, and deep learning. He designs the programs PyFi teaches and instructs its live cohorts, translating frontier AI and ML methods into skills finance professionals can use the next morning.
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