Tom Hyer
CRO at Akuna Capital
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTom Hyer is a quantitative risk and software leader with 10+ years driving production-grade analytics and risk systems for major trading firms, currently serving as CRO at Akuna Capital. He blends deep numerical analysis and derivatives modeling with hands-on engineering, having led deployment of market-leading real-time, multidimensional risk monitors and refactored large-scale analytics platforms at Interactive Brokers and UBS. His work spans C++, Python, Excel and distributed execution frameworks, and he maintains open-source projects (Roc, Machinist) that reflect his focus on practical, reusable frameworks for pricing and risk. A trained physicist (Stanford PhD, Rice BA), he is equally comfortable inventing novel models and implementing them at production scale, with a track record of turning complex quantitative ideas into robust, auditable systems. Notably, he has repeatedly rebuilt and unified disparate quant infrastructures—improving numerical stability and operational resilience—while also contributing directly to trading strategy generation and portfolio performance.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
BA Physics Mathematics, BA Physics Mathematics at Rice UniversityMath Olympiad ProgramPhD Physics, PhD Physics at Stanford University
Github Skills (7)
derived8
chess-engine7
cpp5
uci5
python3
linux1
ai1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
TomHyer/Roc2
Apr 2023 - Feb 2025
Contributions:6 releases, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
TomHyer/Roc
Jan 2017 - Aug 2022
Contributions:23 releases, 144 commits, 1 PR in 5 years 7 months
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