Siddharth G.

CEO

Dubai, United Arab Emirates11 yrs 11 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Over 10 years of experience in trading systems development.
Led successful algorithmic trading initiatives generating substantial returns.
Expertise in both traditional and crypto markets.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech expert specializing in algorithmic trading and market making.

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Skills

Core Skills

Algorithmic TradingMarket MakingArbitrageRisk Management

Other Skills

AlgorithmsCapital MarketsCommoditiesDatabase DesignEquitiesFinancial MarketsFinancial ModelingFinancial RiskHadoopInfrastructureInterest Rate FuturesInvestmentsJavaMarket DataOptions

About

Siddharth comes with over 10 years of experience developing trading systems and strategies. He started his career at DSP Merrill Lynch building trading infrastructure for the company. In his next stint at Edelweiss Financial Services he led development of algorithmic trading infrastructure of the company and worked extensively on building Arbitrage Strategies. After Edelweiss he joined Alphagrep where he developed and ran market making strategies trading equities, commodities and interest rate futures in markets such as India, Brazil, Russia, China and Korea. In last few years he has switched his focus entirely towards Crypto markets. He has developed trading systems to trade in crypto derivative markets and is a leading trader at few of the biggest crypto exchanges. He holds a Bachelors and Masters in Computer Science from IIT Bombay and an MBA from IE Business School, Madrid.

Experience

11 yrs 11 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 4 mos

Average Tenure

1 yr 10 mos

Current Experience

Block theory capital

Trader

Aug 2024 – Present · 1 yr 10 mos · Dubai, United Arab Emirates · On-site

Alphagrep securities

Quantitative Trader

Apr 2014 – Jul 2020 · 6 yrs 3 mos · Mumbai

Worked as part of the market making team at Alphagrep
(1) Developed trading strategies and market predicting alphas
(2) Built the system to quickly start trading in any of the new markets supported by the company
(3) Traded equities, commodities and interest rate futures in markets such as India, Brazil, Russia, China, Korea

Algorithmic TradingTrading StrategiesMarket MakingEquitiesCommoditiesInterest Rate Futures

Edelweiss financial advisors ltd

Manager - Algorithmic Trading

Nov 2009 – Oct 2012 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Mumbai Area, India

(1) Double promoted to Manager in 2012 for exceptional contribution to the company
(2) Back tested and developed Index Arbitrage, Cash Future Arbitrage and Future Rolls strategies generating returns of nearly $4 M per annum (14%) for 3 years; Increased trading volumes by more than 100%
(3) Led a team of 3 to design and implement a low latency and multithreaded strategy building framework; Developed APIs which allowed users to program strategies and develop GUIs; Developed reporting framework for post trade analysis of strategies; Oversaw movement of various strategies to this platform
(4) Studied and designed risk measures to be included in arbitrage and market making strategies which enabled strategies to detect potential risk scenarios; led to potential savings of >USD$100 K per annum

Algorithmic TradingArbitrageTrading InfrastructureRisk ManagementTeam Leadership

Merrill lynch

Specialist - Electronic Trading

Jul 2008 – Jun 2009 · 11 mos · Mumbai Area, India

(1) Built a low latency and multi-threaded Risk Management System for validation and risk calculation of buy/sell orders of clients. Did worst case scenario analysis and implemented results into the system. Achieved sub-millisecond order processing efficiency. Ensured full recovery of the system in case of a crash without loss of information
(2) Designed a database for storing order/trade information. Built a general report generation framework for post trade analysis
(3) Designed and implemented a web portal for modification of trade parameters

Risk ManagementDatabase DesignWeb Development

Webaroo

Intern

May 2006 – Jul 2006 · 2 mos

Designed and implemented a new extension to Bit Torrent Protocol for Webaroo user client. Achieved faster download speeds and seem-less transition between bit-torrent and direct http download of the same file