The CQF was a good entry point for quant finance, and I learned a lot. Moreover, I learned what I liked and didn't like about my career and figured out where I should head next.
The CQF gave me an initial boost and a solid introduction to machine learning, which I've been using throughout my career. It was a good start for my technology career because after the CQF, I worked for software companies that were working with quantitative finance, for example, FinCad, which is a company that pretty much does the stuff we learned on the program.
Quantitative finance is very broad and so I had exposure to multiple areas of it. The CQF was a great mix of everything related to quantitative finance and I found my niche within financial technology as a machine learning data scientist specialist.
