Saleem Ahmad
Quantitative Technology Director
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.
12 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 (39)
networking10
biginteger9
intel9
monitoring9
bigint9
bpf9
linux9
performance-counters9
benchmarking9
opencv9
jupyter-notebook9
cpp8
profiler8
ring-buffer8
real-time-systems8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
sahmad98/go-ringbuffer
Jun 2018 - Nov 2020
A ringbuffer implementation in golang
Contributions:2 releases, 9 commits, 4 PRs in 2 years 4 months
golangring-buffer
sahmad98/Tiva-C-Launchpad-Tutorial
Jul 2014 - Mar 2016
Contributions:4 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 1 year 7 months
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