Deran Onay is the Head of AI Engineering for the Domyn Financial Services Group, where he builds next-generation agentic capabilities and enterprise-scale AI solutions for the financial sector.

Formerly a Director and Co-Head of Pricing AI at BlackRock, Deran spent over a decade architecting large-scale investment systems and quantitative risk models. His contributions span asset allocation and hedging systems, portfolio rebalancing algorithms, factor risk models, signal aggregation and backtesting frameworks, and ML-driven real-time pricing models.

During his tenure at BlackRock, he served on the Enterprise AI Council, initiating the firm's strategic shift toward enterprise-scale AI workflows. In this role, he laid the foundation for agentic frameworks for financial models and the integration of machine learning analytics across global trading desks. He began his career as a developer at Morgan Stanley in 2010, where his work focused on strategic OTC settlement engines.

Deran holds an MSc in Computer Science with a Distinction Award from the University of Oxford, and a BEng in Computer Engineering from Ege University.