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About Me

I’m currently on garden leave, and will be starting at Jane Street in March 2027.

Prior to this, I was a research engineer at DRW on the Fixed Income, Currency and Commodity Options desk. DRW is a proprietary trading firm providing liquidity to a wide range of asset classes, particularly in derivatives markets. The work I did was mostly concerned with developing and maintaining a semi-systematic market-making engine, as well as building tooling for traders and researchers to develop and deploy mid-frequency signals.

I graduated with my BS and MCS from the University of Illinois in May 2022, where I focused on coursework in algorithms and theory, cryptography, and distributed systems and networking. My favorite classes were the ones I struggled the most with, which I truly believe is the most important thing one can do while learning.

Links

• Here’s my full work history
• You can also find some projects I’ve worked on here
• I’ve compiled some book recommendations
• I occasionally post some photos I’ve taken
• My emacs configuration is linked here