Benjamin Hughes
Co-Founder And CEO at Rubicon
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin Hughes is a founder and CEO based in Austin with eight years of finance and startup experience focused on accelerating decentralized finance. As Co-Founder and CEO of Rubicon since 2020, he blends investment-banking rigor from internships at Cain Brothers and Fayez Sarofim with hands-on product leadership. A Business Honors finance graduate from UT Austin, he pairs quantitative analysis and equity research background with practical operational experience from roles at CBRE and university research. His career shows a pattern of moving from rigorous financial analysis into building market-facing crypto fintech, suggesting an ability to translate complex financial models into scalable products. Known for bridging institutional finance instincts with startup execution, he brings a founder’s grit and a finance-first perspective to DeFi strategy and growth.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) Business Honors Finance, Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) Business Honors Finance at The University of Texas at Austin
Github Skills (83)
tooling10
python10
trading10
bots10
backtesting10
trading-bot10
console-log10
cryptocurrency10
cython10
hft10
smart-contracts10
crypto10
javascript10
solidity10
chain10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
RubiconDeFi/rubi-bots
Feb 2023 - Mar 2023
Open-source bots for activists in the Rubicon ecosystem
Contributions:25 reviews, 41 commits, 35 PRs in 1 month
RubiconDeFi/DiscordGasBot
Dec 2020 - May 2021
Contributions:29 commits, 26 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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