Jake Desantis
Portfolio Manager Trader at SummerHaven Investment Management
Redding, Connecticut, United States
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Top SchoolJake Desantis is a seasoned commodity futures portfolio manager and execution trader with over two decades of market experience and 11 years in front-line portfolio roles. He currently manages a $350M commodity options strategy across 25+ commodities, combining quantitative volatility analysis with real-time microstructure signals to capture supply-demand dislocations. Previously he led trading teams and large structured portfolios at AIG Financial Products, executed complex hedge restructurings at Nyala Capital, and has hands-on experience pricing structured derivatives from his UBS and O'Connor floor-market-making background. Jake pairs rigorous risk systems design and P&L attribution with practical execution instincts, having built frameworks for position maintenance and dynamic risk allocation. Based in Redding, Connecticut, he brings a rare blend of academic training in materials science and education with deep, institutional trading leadership. Outside trading he keeps a sandbox GitHub—more for experimentation than production code—reflecting a pragmatic, curious approach to tools and data.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
S.M., Materials Science, S.M., Materials Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMaster's Degree, Education, Master's Degree, Education at University of BridgeportGithub contributions (5)
jakedesantis/Misc
Mar 2015 - Jan 2020
Contributions:8 commits, 6 pushes in 4 years 11 months
jakedesantis/Python
Dec 2018 - Jan 2022
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
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