Saleem Ahmad
Quantitative Technologist
Hong Kong, China
Summary
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Top SchoolSaleem Ahmad is a Quantitative Technologist with 11 years of hands-on experience building low-latency trading systems, market data pipelines, and high-performance cores using Modern C++, Python and Golang. A graduate of IIT Guwahati with a mechanical engineering major and electronics minor, he brings a rare cross-disciplinary understanding of hardware-aware optimization—vectorization with AVX2/AVX512, FPGA integration and HLS—alongside software profiling using Intel tools and eBPF/XDP monitoring. He has driven performance-critical work at HFT and quant firms including Qube Research, Eclipse Trading and Squarepoint, and has deep expertise in exchange connectivity, order book construction and derivatives strategies. Known for squeezing microsecond gains from code and systems, he pairs low-level x86 insight with practical testing, CI practices and production-grade tooling. Based in Hong Kong, he also explores robotics and AI in open-source projects, reflecting a broader curiosity beyond trading systems.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
St. Xavier's High School, BastiBachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Mechanical Engineering(Major) - Electronics and Communication Engineering (Minor), Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Mechanical Engineering(Major) - Electronics and Communication Engineering (Minor) at Indian Institute of Technology, GuwahatiSenior Secondary School Certificate PCM, Senior Secondary School Certificate PCM at Aligarh Muslim University
Hindi, Urdu, English
Github Skills (52)
linux10
networking10
ebpf9
biginteger9
monitoring9
bigint9
bpf9
bcc9
integer9
constexpr8
deterministic7
sampling7
real-time-systems7
sse7
science7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
sahmad98/Tiva-C-Launchpad-Tutorial
Jul 2014 - Mar 2016
Contributions:4 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 1 year 7 months
sahmad98/ebpf-tools
Apr 2020 - Jan 2021
eBPF Tools
Contributions:13 commits, 2 PRs, 10 pushes in 9 months
ebpf
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