Andrew Wei
Trader at Akuna Capital
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Wei is a trader with a strong quantitative foundation—Yale-trained in Computer Science, Economics, and Mathematics with a Data Science certificate—currently focused on low-latency options market making at Akuna Capital. With roughly a decade of experience combining academic research in economics and machine learning, internships at IMC and Voloridge, and hands-on commodity complex trading (natural gas and soybeans), he blends rigorous modeling with execution-aware trading strategies. He has supported ML and algorithms courses as an undergraduate learning assistant and contributed to interdisciplinary research on solar auctions, corporate debt, and medical ML, signaling an ability to move between theory and applied finance. Based in Chicago, he pairs technical depth with market intuition and a track record of building pragmatic, data-driven solutions in both research and production trading environments.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Dual Enrollment Mathematics, Dual Enrollment Mathematics at The University of British ColumbiaBachelor's degree Mathematics; Economics and Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Mathematics; Economics and Computer Science at Yale UniversityDogwood Diploma, Dogwood Diploma at St. George's School
English, Chinese, French, Latin
Github Skills (1)
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
andrewhwei/boardgame_app
May 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:73 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
samanthamorco/algo-practice
May 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:10 PRs, 9 pushes, 4 branches in 1 month
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