Karim Helmy
Head Of Trading at 1kx
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKarim Helmy is an experienced trading and research leader with a decade in crypto markets, currently heading trading at 1kx in New York. With a BSc in Statistics and Machine Learning from Carnegie Mellon, he blends quantitative rigor with hands-on expertise in Bitcoin mining, privacy tech, and market research. His career spans research and analytics roles at Coin Metrics and Galaxy Digital and leadership at Thanefield Capital, reflecting deep domain knowledge across data, mining infrastructure, and trading strategy. Known for consulting work with industry players like The Block and Reciprocal Ventures, he brings both practitioner insight and product-minded analysis to institutional crypto trading. Colleagues describe him as equally comfortable modeling statistical signals and digging into the technical plumbing of mining operations.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
BSc, Statistics and Machine Learning, BSc, Statistics and Machine Learning at Carnegie Mellon University
English, French, Spanish, Arabic
Github Skills (34)
foundry9
plug9
ethereum9
atomic9
erc208
firefox8
blockchain8
mdbook8
verification8
brave8
decentralized-exchange8
intermediate8
chrome8
chrome-extension8
solidity8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
khelmy/zdex
Nov 2018 - Apr 2019
Decentralized exchange for fungible tokens on Zilliqa.
Contributions:124 commits, 2 PRs, 87 pushes in 5 months
fungible-tokensexchangetokensethereumdecentralized-exchange
OTC-mx/atomic-options
Sep 2019 - Dec 2019
Atomic options for ERC20 Tokens
Contributions:2 releases, 108 commits, 51 pushes in 2 months
tokensethereumerc20solidityoptions
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