Summary
Ian Hutchinson is a Chief Technology Officer and seasoned low-latency trading engineer with 11+ years building end-to-end HFT stacks, from gateways and matching engines to analytics, monitoring and trading strategies. He combines deep mathematics and algorithms expertise with hands-on systems work in C++11, Rust, Java and Python, and has designed scalable research and ETL systems for major banks and asset managers. As founder of Agalmic Ventures he consults on market microstructure and led implementations including a cloud-based quantitative research platform and a 40Gbps+ network capture appliance, demonstrating both product-level thinking and extreme-performance engineering. Based in Chicago, he’s highly adaptable, biased toward action, and comfortable across Linux, Windows and macOS environments while drawing on functional programming concepts from Erlang and Haskell to inform robust designs.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Computer Science Math, Bachelor's Computer Science Math at Purdue University