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Akuna Capital
Akuna Capital is a proprietary trading firm specializing in options market making.
Chicago, USA
Description
Akuna Capital is a global proprietary trading firm headquartered in Chicago, with offices in London, Sydney, Shanghai, and Singapore. The firm provides liquidity as an options market maker across global financial markets, covering products including commodities, indexes, and cryptocurrencies. Akuna designs and develops its own low-latency trading systems, mathematical models, strategies, and infrastructure through its Technology, Trading, Quant, and Operations departments. It also offers an Options 101 course introducing industry fundamentals and options trading concepts.Technology & Skills
MENTORSHIP
JEST
MONITORING
MICROSTRUCTURE
TRADING
LINEAR ALGEBRA
JIRA
EDR
VHDL
DYNAMODB
ASYNCHRONOUS EXECUTION
PROGRAMMING
SIEM
CONFLUENCE
OPERATING SYSTEMS
CONCURRENCY
HARDWARE
HTML
PYTHON
SIGNAL PROCESSING
JENKINS
IPS
SPARK
EKS
MATHEMATICS
FOOD SAFETY
PROGRAM MANAGEMENT
DATABASE DESIGN
CSS
TYPESCRIPT
GITOPS
SIGNAL RESEARCH
EXECUTION
AURORA
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
JAVA
RESEARCH
PYTEST
FINANCIAL MARKET
MFA
SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
DATA STRUCTURES
POSTGRESQL
REDSHIFT
RDS
GITLAB
RISK MANAGEMENT
WPF
TRADING ENGINE
CRYPTO
CLOUD COMPUTING
DATA INTEGRATION
TESTING
REST API
SQL
LIQUIDITY
DATA ENGINEERING
COMPILER
AGILE
GREEKS
PERFORMANCE-ENGINEERING
CODING
STORYBOOK
WINDOWS
DESIGN
ALGORITHMS
PARALLEL PROCESSING
GIT
WEB APPLICATION
NETSUITE
QUANTITATIVE MODELING
AI SECURITY
FPGA
KYC
MITRE ATT&CK
EXCEL
TRADING SYSTEMS
AI
COMMUNICATION
MARKET MAKING
NUMERICAL METHOD
STREAMING PIPELINE
PERFORMANCE PROFILING
TERRAFORM
CUSTOMER SERVICE
HISTORICAL DATA
COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE
QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS
SANITATION
OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING
DERIVATIVES
FINANCE
ORGANIZATION
SHELL
IDS
REACT
MSK
PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATION
LOW-LATENCY SYSTEMS
DATA QUALITY
EXCHANGE GATEWAY
PLATFORM ENGINEERING
PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT
QUANTITATIVE MODEL
CODEBASE
GDB
DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS
ACCELERATOR
CI/CD
DATABRICKS
SYSTEMVERILOG
AUTOMATION
LOGGING
FINOPS
HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING
TRADING STRATEGY
INCIDENT RESPONSE
CLEANING
DATA HANDLING
LINUX
INFRASTRUCTURE AS CODE
MARKET DATA
FIREWALL
JAVASCRIPT
SCALA
VULNERABILITY MANAGEMENT
EXCHANGE CONNECTIVITY
DATA-PIPELINE
CYBERSECURITY
FIFO
UNIT TESTING
BASH
ANALYSIS
VALGRIND
POWERSHELL
VERILOG
PROCESS IMPROVEMENT
VOLATILITY
P&L
ALGORITHM
KUBERNETES
DELTA LAKE
HEDGING
C
DOCUMENTATION
AZURE
ANSIBLE
PROBLEM-SOLVING
DATA CAPTURE
BITBUCKET
BROKER
STATISTICS
OPTIONS TRADING
FLOOR TRADING
.NET
PREDICTIVE MODEL
INTEGRATION TESTING
MAINTENANCE
COST ANALYSIS
QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH
I/O
SIGNALS
EXPERIMENTATION
HYBRID CLOUD
THREAT DETECTION
PARAMETER OPTIMIZATION
INVENTORY
PORTFOLIO CONSTRUCTION
PRICING MODEL
PROCUREMENT
ALERTING
TRADING OPERATIONS
TRADING INFRASTRUCTURE
DATA VALIDATION
MATHEMATICAL MODELING
FACILITIES
SECURITY
CLOUD SECURITY
PARALLEL PROGRAMMING
DESIGN PATTERN
SPORTS
FEE RECONCILIATION
FINANCIAL MARKETS
DASHBOARD
TRADING SYSTEM
CLEARING
THROUGHPUT
GOOGLE CLOUD
LLM
LATENCY
CLOUD GOVERNANCE
MULTITHREADING
DATA ANALYSIS
KAFKA
NUMERICAL METHODS
MICROSOFT OFFICE
AWS
WORKFLOW OPTIMIZATION
BENCHMARKING
OPTIMIZATION
COMPLIANCE
ASYNCHRONOUS ARCHITECTURE
MACHINE-LEARNING
NETWORKING
OPTIONS
COST ALLOCATION
DATA PLATFORM
SECURITY ENGINEERING
API INTEGRATION
OKR
PRICING
SOAR
BARISTA
PERFORMANCE MEASURE
TRADING SYSTEM
WITHHOLDING TAX
DELIVERIES
ARCHITECTURE
DATA STRUCTURES
INTERNATIONAL TAX
RESTOCKING
VAT
INCOME TAX
MARKET SIGNAL
COMPUTATIONAL FRAMEWORK
MARKET BEHAVIOR
RISK INFRASTRUCTURE
NUNIT
TAX RESEARCH
EXCEL
DELTA ONE
PROMPT CONSTRUCTION
TESTING
APAC TAX
C#
TAX TECHNOLOGY
GST
DEVICE42
WINFORMS
AUTOMATED REPORTING
AGILE
MULTICORE PROGRAMMING
DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM
FINANCIAL MARKET
POSITION LIMIT
RISK MEASURE
SOFR
MULTITHREADING
ADDRESS SANITIZER
CPU ARCHITECTURE
LOCK-FREE DATA STRUCTURES
EXCHANGE MAPPING
FEATURE RESEARCH
NETWORKING
PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS
BATCH PIPELINE
DEFERRED TAX
TERM STRUCTURE
PROTOCOL DECODING
INTEREST RATES
EXECUTION LOGIC
TAX PLANNING
MATHEMATICAL MODEL
SPX
TAX AUDIT
TAX PROVISION
TRADING SIGNAL
PROTOCOL ENCODING
TEMPLATE METAPROGRAMMING
ANALYSIS
ALGORITHM
PYTHON
AUTOMATION
TRADING SYSTEMS
C++20
TRADING STRATEGY
CROSS-BORDER TRANSACTION
DIGITAL LOGIC
TAX COMPLIANCE
DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS
RISK QUANTIFICATION
C++17
TRANSFER PRICING
OPTIONS THEORY
VOLATILITY ARBITRAGE
ECONOMIC THEORY
DATA
C++23
NUMERICAL PROBLEM-SOLVING
LINUX
CBOE
OBJECT ORIENTED DESIGN
PARALLEL PROGRAMMING
ALGORITHMS
DATA STRUCTURE
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