Nicolas Baum
Senior Software Engineer at 0x
Buenos Aires, Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Top SchoolNicolas Baum is a Senior Software Engineer with 10+ years building quantitative and high-frequency trading systems, risk analytics, and blockchain infrastructure. Trained as an electrical engineer (signal processing) and holding a Master's in Finance (quant track), he bridges rigorous quantitative modeling with production-grade software across Python, C#, C++, R and Matlab. He has implemented market-making strategies (Avellaneda‑Stoikov), high-frequency cross‑exchange bots, and contributed backend features to the widely used Hummingbot open-source trading client. More recently he shifted into blockchain development on Cosmos SDK and CosmWasm using Golang and Rust, working on pricing and RFQ solver problems at 0x after leading backend/chain development at Injective Labs. Comfortable operating at the intersection of research and engineering, he also advises on delta‑neutral market making and has a track record porting quant models between languages and platforms. Based in Buenos Aires, he combines academic depth with hands‑on delivery of resilient, production trading and DeFi systems.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BSc & MSc. in Electronic Engineering Digital Signal Processing, BSc & MSc. in Electronic Engineering Digital Signal Processing at Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos AiresMaster's degree Finance. Quantitative track, Master's degree Finance. Quantitative track at Universidad de 'San Andrés'Bachelor of Humanistics, Bachelor of Humanistics at Escuela Argentina Modelo
English, Spanish, German
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Github Skills (13)
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aggregator10
trading-bot10
pandas6
yahoo-finance6
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
hummingbot/hummingbot
Dec 2020 - Jun 2021
Open source software that helps you create and deploy high-frequency crypto trading bots
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:63 reviews, 294 commits, 75 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Nicolas primarily contributed to back-end development tasks, focusing on the implementation of trading bot functionalities, including order management and market metric aggregation. The code changes involved merging and resolving conflicts related to the "development" branch. Furthermore, the user added new features for tracking and aggregating trading-related metrics and data and incorporated functionalities from external exchanges.
exchangetrading-botblockchaintradingcrypto
keithbaum/hummingbot
Jun 2021 - Jun 2023
Hummingbot: a client for crypto market making
Contributions:30 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 11 months
market-makingtrading-botbottradingcrypto
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