Steve Eichblatt
Quantitative Developer
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSteve Eichblatt is a quantitative developer and PhD physicist with over two decades of technical experience and a decade focused on quantitative finance, currently applying his expertise at Susquehanna. He has designed and productionized equity trading and hedging strategies at startups and major firms (Hutchin Hill, Citadel) and led tooling, codebase management, and mentoring for research teams. Strong in Kdb/q and data-driven backtesting, he blends experimental physics rigor with software engineering discipline to turn diverse data sources into robust trading signals. His background in characterization engineering and telecommunications software gives him a rare systems-level perspective on performance and reliability under production constraints. Based in New York, he combines deep domain knowledge in physics and finance with hands-on programming to solve complex, low-latency problems.
10 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Physics, BS, Physics at Royal Melbourne Institute of TechnologyPhD, Physics, PhD, Physics at Rice University
Esperanto, French, English
Github Skills (21)
time-machine10
audio9
ffmpeg8
player8
mpv7
multimedia6
cli6
video-player6
ffi5
displays5
python-interface4
python4
media-player3
rgb3
adafruit3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
eichblatt/litestream
May 2023 - Apr 2025
Time Machine live music streaming for microprocessor
Contributions:25 releases, 340 PRs, 858 pushes in 1 year 10 months
eichblatt/analyze_roots
Jul 2018 - May 2019
Contributions:22 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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