San Francisco, California
Equity options market maker.
• Led development of C++ quoting system, generating continuous two-sided quotes streamed directly to 15 US options exchanges.
• Re-architected order entry and quote management process, enhancing micro-placement strategies utilizing cache-efficient pre-computations and smart prioritization under bandwidth limitations.
• Focused on control systems to ensure stable quoting behavior, latency reduction to single-digit microseconds tick-to-trade, and data analytics for profitable quoting strategies.
• Enhanced signals to provide tighter, larger size quotes, using modern data-driven methodologies.
• Optimized performance on server-grade x86, focusing on cache utilization and efficient memory design.
• Contributed to diverse system functionalities, spanning market data, messaging, order entry processes, and FPGA interface.
• Collaborated closely with traders, quants, and engineers.