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Yi-Heng Sun

Taipei

Summary

Passionate HFT quantitative trader and developer.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience
12
12
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Languages

Work History

Chief Technology Officer

Aargo Trade
8 2022 - Current
  • Built a team with 10 members from scratch.
  • Developed a pair-trading strategy and traded in CME, NYMEX, COMEX, EUREX, EURONEXT, HKEX, OSE, and ICE.
  • Built a company-wide distributed trading system from scratch, including trading servers, market data servers, paper trading servers, backend servers (P&L accounting system and routers for frontends), databases, AWS networking, VPN, and frontend UI.
  • Connected to brokers: Edelweiss, Interactive Brokers, Cowen, Marex, with FIX protocol, binary gateway, and FlexTrader.

Quantitative Trader/Developer

Amber Group
04.2020 - 02.2023

Trading:

  • Created and implemented high-frequency and mid-frequency trading strategies, and alpha signals.
  • Developed machine learning algorithms to fit trading models (markout selection, feature selection, etc.).
  • Designed simulation algorithms and reconciled production and simulation results (market data, strategy behavior, alpha values, etc.).

Infrastructure:

  • Developed websocket and HTTP (RESTful) connectivity with exchanges (boost).
  • Developed shared memory/TCP publisher/reader framework.
  • Developed lock-free SPMC shared memory queue.
  • Developed multi-threading order routing/data routing system.
  • Configured the operating system to optimize the system performance (LLC, NUMA, etc.).
  • GitLab CI unit test pipelines and docker image management.

Quantitative Trader

Kronos Research
11.2018 - 11.2019
  • Implemented trading strategies.
  • Conducted alpha signals research.
  • Reconciled production and simulation results.
  • Implemented workflows of model training and model selection algorithms.
  • Developed company-wise profit and loss system.

Quantitative Trader

MasterLink
06.2018 - 11.2018
  • Developed trading signals of Taiwan Index for TXO.
  • Developed trading strategies for TXO.
  • Obtained trading license from SECURITIES & FUTURES INSTITUTION, Taiwan.

Research Assistant

Academia Sinica
07.2015 - 05.2018
  • Implemented and designed statistical linear dimension reduction algorithms(LDA, NDA, ...etc)
  • Implemented and designed tensor data dimension reduction algorithms
  • Designed face recognition algorithm(master degree thesis)
  • Convolutional neural network
  • Reinforcement Learning.

Education

Master of Science - Applied Mathematics

National Taiwan University
02.2015 - 05.2017

Bachelor of Science - Mathematics

National Taiwan University
09.2012 - 04.2017

Bachelor of Art - Political Science

National Taiwan University
09.2012 - 04.2017

Skills

C

Linux

PostgreSQL

Python

Git

Docker

Jenkins

Timeline

Quantitative Trader/Developer

Amber Group
04.2020 - 02.2023

Quantitative Trader

Kronos Research
11.2018 - 11.2019

Quantitative Trader

MasterLink
06.2018 - 11.2018

Research Assistant

Academia Sinica
07.2015 - 05.2018

Master of Science - Applied Mathematics

National Taiwan University
02.2015 - 05.2017

Bachelor of Science - Mathematics

National Taiwan University
09.2012 - 04.2017

Bachelor of Art - Political Science

National Taiwan University
09.2012 - 04.2017

Chief Technology Officer

Aargo Trade
8 2022 - Current
Yi-Heng Sun