Nick Atkins
Co-Head, Fixed Income Interest Rate Options Trading
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Atkins is a senior derivatives entrepreneur and trader with 25+ years building and running institutional market-making and proprietary options desks across fixed income and crypto markets. He co-founded and capitalised a top-tier ICE interest rate options firm, architecting proprietary pricing engines, volatility frameworks and multi-venue execution and risk systems that supported large multi-currency portfolios. Since 2022 he has translated institutional volatility and portfolio construction techniques into BTC/ETH options, running delta-hedged, multi-expiry strategies and API-driven tooling for systematic hedging and yield enhancement. Equally comfortable in OTC and electronic markets, he combines hands-on coding (Python analytics, Redis back-end contributions) with trading instincts to automate execution and risk. Currently consulting while developing next-generation systematic volatility strategies, he has a track record of recruiting and mentoring traders and delivering durable P&L through disciplined risk frameworks. Unusually for a senior trader, he remains an active engineer who contributed stream support to a widely used C++ Redis client, reflecting a blend of quantitative, operational and software craftsmanship.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Mathematics, Master's degree, Mathematics at University of Oxford
Github Skills (6)
c-language10
redis-client10
cpp10
cprogramming-language10
redis10
cpp-library9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
cpp-redis/cpp_redis
Nov 2018 - Oct 2022
C++11 Lightweight Redis client: async, thread-safe, no dependency, pipelining, multi-platform
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 3 reviews, 60 commits in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Nick primarily focused on enhancing the `cpp-redis` library's support for Redis streams. Their contributions include implementing new stream methods, such as those related to XPENDING and XREADGROUP, and adding a range class for simplifying arguments. They also worked on parsing XSTREAM replies and other stream-related functionality, reflecting a focus on expanding the library's capabilities for working with Redis's stream features. Additionally, the user made license header modifications.
unixpipeliningc-plus-plusmulti-platformthread
mc-infra/above-and-beyond-fabric
Aug 2022 - Sep 2022
[Fabric Modpack] Fabric Port of Create's official Challenge-pack
Contributions:1 release, 203 commits, 222 pushes in 29 days
minecraftfabricmodpackpackfabricmc
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