Trading leader with 6+ years across trading and digital-asset markets, specializing in building and operating trading functions end-to-end: from market structure, liquidity and systematic research through risk, execution, infrastructure and production.
Built and led multi-venue trading platforms, market-making operations, quantitative research infrastructure and trading teams across exchange and token markets. Combines trading-domain expertise with technical architecture, business ownership and an AI-native research and engineering approach focused on accelerating the full idea-to-production lifecycle.
Designed agent-assisted research and engineering workflows that combine parallel AI agents, explicit research contracts, automated test harnesses and independent verification, enabling complex research and development work to scale without proportionally increasing team size.
Experience: 6 years
Yearly salary: $150,000
Hourly rate: $200
Nationality: 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates
Residency: 🇬🇪 Georgia
Experience
Product Owner Trading Desk
Fastex 2023 - 2025
• Led a 13-person trading and market-making organization with responsibility for more than $20M in exchange liquidity and $30M in token liquidity across trading, engineering and operations. • Architected a unified trading API and connectivity layer supporting 20+ exchanges, covering market making, hedging, PnL/exposure, risk and monitoring. • Improved trading-system reliability to approximately 99.7% availability and helped strengthen exchange market positioning from approximately #250 to Top 60 through liquidity and market-quality improvements. • Led liquidity and market-quality development for FTN across CEX/DEX venues; during the period FTN reached approximately Top 100 on CoinGecko and Top 200 on CoinMarketCap. • Owned venue selection, liquidity allocation and trading priorities and worked directly with CEO, CPO and operations leadership on trading strategy, product priorities and market expansion. • Earned a $10k USDT market-maker incentive through Bitget's 2024 incentive program based on liquidity quality, spreads and trading volume. • Built a trading desk from the ground up, covering market-making and liquidity strategies, isolated-market bots, hedging, automated PnL/exposure and risk controls, and real-time monitoring. • Established the production stack on bare metal with GitLab CI/CD and PostgreSQL, including 24/7 monitoring and alerts across spread, volume, orders, trade distribution, PnL and exposure. • Hired the initial 6-person technical and operations team: 3 developers, 2 operations specialists and 1 DevOps engineer - to build and operate the trading platform. • Launched token liquidity across 10+ CEX venues
Trading Team Lead
Latoken 2021 - 2022
• Automated trading-desk operations and managed liquidity across 500+ markets, including CEX liquidity and CEX-to-DEX hedging. • Reduced trading-desk operating costs by approximately $15k/month through automation while increasing market-making revenue by approximately 42%. • Improved average quoted spread from approximately 3% to 1% and contributed to exchange ranking growth from approximately #130 to #60 on CoinMarketCap. • Operated and improved market-making systems across 500+ trading pairs, investigated trading losses and execution issues, and launched new markets. • Helped reduce trading losses by approximately 50%, reduced CPU consumption of one trading component by approximately 3x, and improved client limit-order execution speed by approximately 30%.
Skills
accounting
ai
devops
product-lead
product-manager
python
pytorch
quantitative-developer
quantitative-trader
trader